dead pan
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.33 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
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
- "This master comedian of dead pan delivery, perfect timing and the supreme usage of the pause to milk the audience laughter, actually started in vaudeville as a “class act” with his playing the violin and a partner as a pianist."
- "He was happy to acknowledge the outstanding ovation with his dead pan face and speak in his unique French Canadian accent."
- "I can't imagine that Jesus could have inspired and led crowds of people with a serious dead pan expression; it is more likely he had a sense of humor, and endless love for people."
- "Here a young man, perhaps sixteen, is sitting with his back to the rock among some ferns playing a guitar, dead pan."
- "He had a long hang-dog sort of face and a cropped hair style that he claimed, dead pan, was a relic of his days at West Point."
- "'I thought it was to drink. It wasn't until I sobered up and returned that I realized why I belong here. Umm . . . what were you going to do? I mean if I took even longer to return?' 'Become professors,' she said 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)