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单词 expressionless
释义
expressionlessex‧pres‧sion‧less /ɪkˈspreʃənləs/ adjective Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • dark expressionless eyes
  • Oswini was watching her with expressionless eyes.
  • Terry's face was expressionless as he listened to the report.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • It was Iranildo's job to lift the ball over the expressionless defence and to find the top corner of the net.
  • She stared at him with a stiff, expressionless face.
  • She went back as she had come, fast asleep and docile, her face expressionless.
  • So she sat, expressionless, immobile, trying to fight the anger as her gut ached for her husband.
  • Their faces are expressionless, their eyes betray little, if any, interest in being in school.
  • They watched me even more carefully, their eyes expressionless, waiting.
  • While the left half of my face remains regular and animated, the right half droops, flat and expressionless.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatora face that does not show any feelings or opinions
· Oswini was watching her with expressionless eyes.· Terry's face was expressionless as he listened to the report.
showing no emotion, interest, or understanding in your expression, for example because you are bored, or have not been paying attention to what is being said: · Maria could tell by the blank look in my eyes that I didn't understand.· The children's faces were blank with sleepiness.
deliberately showing no humour in your expression, even though what you are saying or doing is meant as a joke: · "We're out of gas, so I guess you'll have to walk home," he said, giving me a deadpan expression.
someone who has an inscrutable expression shows no emotion or reaction, so it is impossible to guess what they are thinking or feeling: · She looked for some response, but Jean's expression remained inscrutable.· The inscrutable gaze of the palace guards made me a little nervous.
someone who is poker-faced does not show at all what they are thinking or feeling, either because they do not want other people to know or because they disapprove of something: · Not even Will Rogers could make the poker-faced President laugh.· Albert, normally poker faced, wore a look of shock.
not showing any emotion, especially in a situation where you would normally expect someone to be sad, shocked, upset, etc: · Russell struggled to keep an impassive face as she continued.· The defendant remained impassive as the judge announced the guilty verdict.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
· She stared at him with a stiff, expressionless face.· Everyone I talked to thought that it put his generally expressionless face to shame.· He was a short, dry man, with a square, expressionless face, between forty and fifty years old.· What volcano of emotion must have been boiling inside that youngster under his teasing and laughing, under his occasionally expressionless face?· Roxie Farmer was still sitting in the police car, looking out at them with an expressionless face.· The two uniformed highway patrolmen stared at him with expressionless faces.
Word family
WORD FAMILYadjectiveexpressiveinexpressiveexpressionlessinexpressibleadverbexpressivelyexpressionlesslyinexpressiblynounexpressionexpressivenessverbexpress
an expressionless face or voice does not show what someone thinks or feels OPP  expressive:  a blank expressionless stareexpressionlessly adverb
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