dead-pan
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.33 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
4
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Alternative form of deadpan.
adv
Alternative form of deadpan.
noun
Alternative form of deadpan.
verb
Alternative form of deadpan.
Example Sentences
- "He stared for a few seconds, then asked with a dead-pan expression, “And some chiange?”"
- "Jimbo had seen many drifters in all his years, and they all had that dead-pan look in their eyes."
- "It might be better to see the title almost as comic, in its dead-pan announcement of an Important Political Issue."
- "There was his left-hand head talking and sort of yapping that silly laugh of his, dead-pan, while the right-hand head was all creased up with giggle lines."
- "Dead-pan, he took down Matthew's broken explanations, shook his hand warmly, refused a drink and a plaster for his leg, and ran for the first public call-box as hard as he could go."
- ""Why would you think that?" asked Daisy, dead-pan."
Inflected Forms
more dead-pan (comparative)
most dead-pan (superlative)
dead-pans (plural)
dead-pans (present, singular)
dead-panning (participle, present)
dead-panned (participle, past)
dead-panned (past)