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stonefaced

stonefaced adjective: having a cold and emotionless facial expression.

Adjective

stonefaced (comparative more stonefaced, superlative most stonefaced)

  1. Having a cold and emotionless facial expression.
    • The old man's telling had been ceremonious: a form of words, a feat of memory, a mask. This was otherwise. A stonefaced woman; a bewildered man.2009, Greer Gilman, Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter's Tales, page 315

Forms of stonefaced

comparativemore stonefaced
superlativemost stonefaced

Origin of stonefaced

From stone + faced.

Questions about stonefaced

What does stonefaced mean?
Stonefaced means having a cold and emotionless facial expression.
What part of speech is stonefaced?
Stonefaced is an adjective.

Words near stonefaced in the dictionary

  1. stonedly
  2. stonedness
  3. stonedresser
  4. stonedressers
  5. stonedressing
  6. stonefaced
  7. stonefall
  8. stonefalls
  9. stonefish
  10. stonefishes
  11. stoneflies

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