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FLAT

Definition:

1. [adverb] at full length; "he fell flat on his face"
   
   
2. [adverb] with flat sails; "sail flat against the wind"
   
   
3. [adverb] below the proper pitch; "she sang flat last night"
   
   
4. [adverb] against a flat surface; "he lay flat on his back"
   
   
5. [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"
   Synonyms: directly, straight
   
   
6. [adverb] wholly or completely; "He is flat broke"
   
   
7. [noun] a level tract of land
   
   
8. [noun] a shallow box in which seedlings are started
   
   
9. [noun] a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named
   
   
10. [noun] freight car without permanent sides or roof
    Synonyms: car, bed
    
    
11. [noun] a deflated pneumatic tire
    Synonyms: tire
    
    
12. [noun] scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting
    
    
13. [noun] a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
    Synonyms: apartment
    
    
14. [adjective] having a horizontal surface in which no part is higher or lower than another; "a flat desk"; "acres of level farmland"; "a plane surface"
    Synonyms: level, plane
    
    
15. [adjective] having no depth or thickness
    
    
16. [adjective] not modified or restricted by reservations; "a categorical denial"; "a flat refusal"
    Synonyms: categoric, categorical, unconditional
    
    
17. [adjective] stretched out and lying at full length along the ground; "found himself lying flat on the floor"
    Synonyms: prostrate
    
    
18. [adjective] lacking contrast or shading between tones
    
    
19. [adjective] lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone; "B flat"
    
    
20. [adjective] flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
    Synonyms: compressed
    
    
21. [adjective] lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea"
    Synonyms: bland, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid
    
    
22. [adjective] lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; "a bland little drama"; "a flat joke"
    Synonyms: bland
    
    
23. [adjective] having lost effervescence; "flat beer"; "a flat cola"
    
    
24. [adjective] not increasing as the amount taxed increases
    Synonyms: fixed
    
    
25. [adjective] not made with leavening; "most flat breads are made from unleavened dough"
    Synonyms: unraised
    
    
26. [adjective] parallel to the ground; "a flat roof"
    
    
27. [adjective] without pleats
    Synonyms: unpleated
    
    
28. [adjective] 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"
    Synonyms: two-dimensional
    
    
29. [adjective] (of a tire) completely or partially deflated
    
    
30. [adjective] not reflecting light; not glossy; "flat wall paint"; "a photograph with a matte finish"
    Synonyms: mat, matt, matte, matted
    
    
31. [adjective] lacking variety in shading; "a flat unshaded painting"
    
    

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Related Words:

• salt flat, salt plain
• double flat
• coulisse, wing flat
• tormenter, tormentor, teaser
• bedsitting room, bedsitter, bedsit
• cold-water flat
• duplex apartment, duplex
• efficiency apartment
• flatlet
• maisonette, maisonnette
• penthouse
• railroad flat
• studio apartment, studio
• suite, rooms
• walk-up apartment, walk-up

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