English

Alternative forms

• dead-pan
• dead pan

Adjective

deadpan ‎(comparative more deadpan, superlative most deadpan)

1. Deliberately impassive or expressionless (as a face or look).
2. Having such a face or look (as a person).
3. Impassive (as behaviour or speech).

(Can we add an example for this sense?)

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Synonyms

• poker faced

Adverb

deadpan ‎(comparative more deadpan, superlative most deadpan)

1. In a deadpan manner.
   • 2004, Steven Greenhut, Abuse of Power: How the Government Misuses Eminent Domain

     A city-hired consultant from a firm called Urban Futures was booed repeatedly by the agitated homeowners as he talked deadpan, in bureaucratese, about his firm's "evidentiary record" pointing to blight in the neighborhood.

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Noun

deadpan ‎(uncountable)

1. A style of comedic delivery in which something humourous is said or done while not exhibiting a change in emotion or facial expression.
   • 2007, Meredith Gran, Octopus Pie #71: Deadpan

     MAREK: But really the deadpan is key. You can essentially trick people into laughing at nothing.

Synonyms

• deadpan comedy
• deadpan humour

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Verb

deadpan ‎(third-person singular simple present deadpans, present participle deadpanning, simple past and past participle deadpanned)

1. To express (oneself) in an impassive or expressionless manner.

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Anagrams

• pedanda