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straight-faced

ADJECTIVE

deadpan

Synonyms

STRONGEST

impassive stony

WEAK

blank nobody home poker-faced serious unreadable vacant wooden

Antonyms

WEAK

histrionic warm

ADJECTIVE

expressionless

Synonyms

STRONGEST

deadpan impassive inscrutable vacant

WEAK

dead dull empty fish-eyed inexpressive lackluster lusterless nobody home poker-faced stolid stupid unexpressive vacuous wooden

Antonyms

WEAK

animated demonstrative expressive

ADJECTIVE

pokerfaced

Synonyms

WEAK

blank dead deadpan dull empty fish-eyed impassive inexpressive inscrutable lackluster lusterless nobody home poker-faced stolid stupid unexpressive vacant vacuous wooden

Example Sentences

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“Actually,” says a straight-faced J.D., “medicine is the best medicine.”

From Salon • Feb. 26, 2026

“Take control of your life, and by life I mean your butt,” Katz says to the camera, straight-faced.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 21, 2025

But Schaffer’s take — not a new direction, but rather an ironically straight-faced reboot of the deadpan ZAZ style — supplies the well-trodden gag with a necessary contemporary jolt.

From Salon • Aug. 1, 2025

If “Shadow of the Vampire” was a playful spin, Eggers’ “Nosferatu” is an utterly straight-faced and interminably dull retread of the 1922 original.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2024

And he said it so straight-faced, but he had to be joking.

From "Winger" by Andrew Smith

straight-faced

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