po-facedadjective
uk/ˌpəʊˈfeɪst//ˌpoʊˈfeɪst/UK informal disapproving too serious and disapproving:
Two po-faced men came to inspect the house.
The film is serious but not po-faced.
informal A po-faced person has a face with a serious, disapproving, or empty expression:
She remained po-faced all evening, even when the rest of us were in stitches at Bob's jokes.
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Lacking humour
- be no laughing matter idiom
- beyond
- beyond a joke idiom
- earnest
- humourless
- laugh
- lightly
- mirthless
- poker-faced
- rofl
- serious
- seriously
- sober
- solemn
- solemnity
- starchily
- starchy
- take a joke idiom
- turgid
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Not showing or feeling emotions