deadpanとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

dead +‎ pan (“face”)

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛdpæn/

形容詞

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.

3. Impassive.

   deadpan behaviour or speech

同意語

• poker-faced

副詞

deadpan (comparative more deadpan, superlative most deadpan)

1. In a deadpan manner.
   • 2004, Steven Greenhut, Abuse of Power: How the Government Misuses Eminent Domain

     A city-hired consultant from a firm called Urban Futures was booed repeatedly by the agitated homeowners as he talked deadpan, in bureaucratese, about his firm's "evidentiary record" pointing to blight in the neighborhood.

名詞

deadpan (uncountable)

1. A style of comedic delivery in which something humorous is said or done while not exhibiting a change in emotion or facial expression.
   • 2007, Meredith Gran, Octopus Pie #71: Deadpan

     MAREK: But really the deadpan is key. You can essentially trick people into laughing at nothing.

同意語

• deadpan comedy
• deadpan humour

動詞

deadpan (三人称単数 現在形 deadpans, 現在分詞 deadpanning, 過去形および過去分詞形 deadpanned)

1. To express (oneself) in an impassive or expressionless manner.

アナグラム

• pedanda

副詞

dead-pan (comparative more dead-pan, superlative most dead-pan)

1. Alternative form of deadpan
   • 2007, Frederik Pohl, Platinum Pohl:

     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.

   • 2012, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Night and Silence, Who is Here?:

     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.

   • 2015, Robin Stevens, Arsenic For Tea:

     "Why would you think that?" asked Daisy, dead-pan.

名詞

dead-pan (複数形 dead-pans)

1. Alternative form of deadpan
   • 1936, Edmund Wilson, Travels in Two Democracies, page 51:

     They are the eerie half-human attendants at anything that is new on Broadway — the dead-pans of the Theatre Guild openings.

   • 1940, Louis Adamic, From Many Lands, page 224:

     The older people have “Japanesey” dead-pans, whereas many of the American generation can display a great variety of emotions facially.

   • 1971, Manny Farber, Negative Space: Manny Farber on the Movies, page 58:

     Good coarse romantic-adventure nonsense, exploiting the expressive dead-pans of Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell, a young man and a young woman who would probably enjoy doing in real life what they have to do here for RKO.

動詞

dead-pan (三人称単数 現在形 dead-pans, 現在分詞 dead-panning, 過去形および過去分詞形 dead-panned)

1. Alternative form of deadpan
   • 1983, Rod McQueen, The Money-spinners:

     "I've long admired men who have risen from humble beginnings," Mulholland says, and then dead-pans: "Dr. Laffer was educated at Yale."

   • 1999, Gabriel Brahm, The Post-human Condition:

     Thus, "I know where I am," Bartleby dead-pans, when offered better food during his final incarceration.

   • 2012, Jackie Collins, American Star:

     'I don't have a black tie,' she dead-panned. He didn't laugh.