Active and Deadpan

Active

Active adjective - Being in effective operation.

Deadpan is an antonym for active.

Deadpan

Deadpan adjective - Not expressing any emotion.
Usage example: he delivered the joke in such a deadpan voice that we thought at first that he was serious

Active is an antonym for deadpan.

Both words in one sentence

  • Video Game / Dungeon Siege Deadpan Snarker: Lucas in III is not afraid to let loose with this whenever he's the active sidekick during conversations.
  • Mike Channel, for one, is repeatedly mentioned as old and over the hill in Radio Active, but in KYTV he's roughly the same age as the rest of the cast, and, while still the Deadpan Snarker Butt Monkey of the show, has lost his self-pitying pathos.
    Source: Series / KYTV
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