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dead-pan

dead-pan is the alternative form of deadpan.

Meaning of deadpan

Adjective

deadpan (comparative more deadpan, superlative most deadpan)

  1. Deliberately impassive or expressionless.
    • a deadpan face or look
  2. Having such a face or look.
    • The comedian remained deadpan.

See all 5 meanings of deadpan

Forms of dead-pan

Adjective
comparativemore dead-pan
superlativemost dead-pan
Adverb
comparativemore dead-pan
superlativemost dead-pan
Noun
pluraldead-pans
Verb
third-person singular presentdead-pans
present participledead-panning
past participledead-panned
pastdead-panned

Questions about dead-pan

What is dead-pan the alternative form of?
Dead-pan is the alternative form of deadpan.

Words near dead-pan in the dictionary

  1. dead-named
  2. dead-names
  3. dead-naming
  4. dead-nuts
  5. dead-on
  6. dead-pan
  7. dead-panned
  8. dead-panning
  9. dead-pans
  10. dead-pay
  11. dead-pays

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dead-pan (page history and authors); deadpan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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