ilmeetön — meaning in English

English meaning

• deadpan adjective Delivered with a completely blank, unsmiling face and a flat voice, so that the joke lands precisely because the speaker gives no sign of joking.
• stolid adj Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility.

Senses

ilmeetön is used for these senses in English:

• deadpan Deliberately impassive or expressionless.
• expressionless without expression
• stolid Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility.

deadpan — full definition

1. adjective Delivered with a completely blank, unsmiling face and a flat voice, so that the joke lands precisely because the speaker gives no sign of joking.
2. adverb In a flat, expressionless way.
3. verb To say something funny while keeping a completely straight face.

stolid — full definition

1. adj Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility.
2. adj Dully or heavily stupid.

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