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Adjective
- not reflecting light; not glossy
- 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
- sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
- the owl's faint monotonous hooting
- having lost effervescence
- lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting
- lacking taste or flavor or tang
- flavorless supermarket tomatoes
- flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
- (of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone
- 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
- having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness
- having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another
- 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
Adverb
- in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly
- he didn't answer directly
- came out flat for less work and more pay
- with flat sails
- sail flat against the wind