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flat
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Adjective
  • commercially inactive
    • flat sales for the month
    • prices remained flat
    • a flat market
  • not reflecting light; not glossy
    • flat wall paint
    • a photograph with a matte finish
  • lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth
    • a film with two-dimensional characters
    • a flat two-dimensional painting
  • horizontally level
    • a flat roof
  • sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
    • the owl's faint monotonous hooting
  • having lost effervescence
    • flat beer
    • a flat cola
  • lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting
    • a bland little drama
    • a flat joke
  • lacking taste or flavor or tang
    • a bland diet
    • insipid hospital food
    • flavorless supermarket tomatoes
    • vapid beer
    • vapid tea
  • flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
  • (of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone
    • B flat
  • lacking contrast or shading between tones
  • stretched out and lying at full length along the ground
    • found himself lying flat on the floor
  • not modified or restricted by reservations
    • a categorical denial
    • a flat refusal
  • having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness
    • flat computer monitors
  • having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another
    • a flat desk
    • acres of level farmland
    • a plane surface
    • skirts sewn with fine flat seams
Noun
  • a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
  • scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting
  • a deflated pneumatic tire
  • freight car without permanent sides or roof
  • a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named
  • a shallow box in which seedlings are started
  • a level tract of land
    • the salt flats of Utah
Adverb
  • in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly
    • he didn't answer directly
    • told me straight out
    • came out flat for less work and more pay
  • with flat sails
    • sail flat against the wind
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