stone face
Emotionless facial display
A stone face shows no expression or emotion—impassive, unreadable, revealing nothing.
The image is of features as fixed and blank as carved stone.
Someone might keep a stone face during interrogation or while bluffing at poker.
As a verb, to stone-face someone is to meet them with deliberate blankness: She stone-faced him through the entire meeting.
- expressionlessShowing no feeling
- blankWithout marks or content
- stoicUncomplaining endurer of hardship
- impassiveWithout visible emotion
- deadpanExpressionless, especially for humor
stiff upper lip · marble · granite · statue · mask · frozen · cold · cold stare · unreadable · emotionless · stern · rigid · chiseled · jaw · Easter Island · Mount Rushmore · carved · glare
- blank expressionsblank stare, deadpan, expressionless, flat affect
- facial expressionssmiling, smile, grin, grinning, frown
- emotional maskingmasking, suppression, repression, hiding, bottling up
- emotional armorthick skin, stoicism, detachment, indifference, callousness
- humorlessnesshumorlessness, seriousness, deadpan, unsmiling, killjoy
- gesturesgesture, hand gestures, applause, hand raise, tap on shoulder
emotional expressiveness
stone facegrin
Broad, toothy smile
open book · beaming smile · crying face · smirk · grimace
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