Deadpan (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

adjective
  1. marked by or accomplished with a careful pretense of seriousness or calm detachment; impassive or expressionless: deadpan humor.
  2. displaying no emotional or personal involvement: a deadpan style.
adverb
  1. in a deadpan manner: He spoke his lines utterly deadpan.
verb (used with or without object), dead·panned, dead·pan·ning.
  1. to behave or perform in a deadpan manner.
noun Also dead pan .
  1. a face showing no expression.
  2. a style of comedy that relies on the comedian's maintaining such a face.
adjective, adverb
  1. with a deliberately emotionless face or manner
Deadpan (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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