po-faced

1. 1.

   humorless and disapproving

   Similarhumorless

   United Kingdom

Questions about po-faced

What does po-faced mean?

po-faced means "humorless and disapproving".

How many syllables are in po-faced?

po-faced has 2 syllables and divides as po-fa-ced under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is po-faced a common word?

po-faced is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.