expressionless
/ɪkˈsprɛʃ(ə)nlɪs
/adjective
(Of a person’s face or voice) not conveying any emotion; unemotional: her face was expressionless...
- In all the other passport style photos I had done I was always trying not to smile and just look expressionless.
- In these, and all matters, Laursen's expressionless tone and apparent insouciance can be misleading.
- On stage, as the band around him rocks the crowd, he stands there motionless, expressionless.
Synonyms
inscrutable, unreadable, deadpan, poker-faced;
blank, empty, vacant, emotionless, unemotional, unexpressive, inexpressive;
glazed, fixed, lifeless, stony, wooden, impassive, inanimate, unresponsive
dull, dry, toneless, monotonous, drab, boring, tedious, flat, static, wooden, unmodulated, unvarying, undemonstrative, devoid of feeling/emotion;
apathetic, unimpassioned, uninspiring, weak
Derivatives
expressionlessly
- His communications director was silently omnipresent, staring expressionlessly at his shoes for the duration of many of the prime minister's speeches.
- She looks back expressionlessly for a moment, looks back at the commanding stranger with his cruel, impatient face.
- The three captains that stood before him stared off at the wall behind himself expressionlessly, but the lieutenant could feel their fear, radiating from them the way heat radiated from a living body.
expressionlessness
- Her eyes were wide open and crystal clear, but instead of the warmth of lucidity, they burned with the ice of expressionlessness.
- His face was finely boned and almost feminine but its utter expressionlessness dared someone - anyone - to have the guts to call him girly.
- Alexis's face slipped back into it's normal expressionlessness.