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- [poh-ker feyst]
- /ˈpoʊ kər feɪst/
- /ˈpəʊ.kər feɪs/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [poh-ker feyst]
- /ˈpoʊ kər feɪst/
Definitions of poker-faced word
- noun poker-faced an expressionless face: He can tell a funny story with a poker face. 1
- noun poker-faced a person who has or deliberately assumes a poker face: It is impossible to tell what that poker face is really thinking. 1
- adjective poker-faced If you are poker-faced, you have a calm expression on your face which shows none of your thoughts or feelings. 0
- adjective poker-faced having a deliberately expressionless face 0
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Origin of poker-faced
First appearance:
before 1880 One of the 23% newest English words
An Americanism dating back to 1880-85
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Poker-faced
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
poker-faced popularity
A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 34% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
According to our data about 64% of words is more used. This is a rare but used term. It occurs in the pages of specialized literature and in the speech of educated people.
Synonyms for poker-faced
adj poker-faced
- blank — Something that is blank has nothing on it.
- bureaucratic — Bureaucratic means involving complicated rules and procedures which can cause long delays.
- couldn't care less — If you say that you couldn't care less about someone or something, you are emphasizing that you are not interested in them or worried about them. In American English, you can also say that you could care less, with the same meaning.
- deadpan — Deadpan humour is when you appear to be serious and are hiding the fact that you are joking or teasing someone.
adjective poker-faced
- bearing — Someone's bearing is the way in which they move or stand.
- coldblooded — having a body temperature that fluctuates, approximating that of the surrounding air, land, or water
- expressionless — (of a person's face or voice) not conveying any emotion; unemotional.
- indurated — to make hard; harden, as rock, tissue, etc.: Cold indurates the soil.
- inexcitable — Not excitable.
Antonyms for poker-faced
adjective poker-faced
- committal — Committal is the process of officially sending someone to a prison or to hospital.
- coupled — being one of the partners in a permanent sexual relationship
- feeling — a quality of an object that is perceived by feeling or touching: the soft feel of cotton.
- habited — inhabited.
- merged — Simple past tense and past participle of merge.
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