Flat
[n] a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
[n] scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting
[n] a deflated pneumatic tire
[n] a shallow box in which seedlings are started
[n] freight car without permanent sides or roof
[n] a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named
[n] a level tract of land
[adv] wholly or completely; "He is flat broke"
[adv] 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"
[adj] stretched out and lying at full length along the ground; "found himself lying flat on the floor"
[adv] at full length; "he fell flat on his face"
[adv] against a flat surface; "he lay flat on his back"
[adv] below the proper pitch; "she sang flat last night"
[adv] with flat sails; "sail flat against the wind"
[adj] lacking variety in shading; "a flat unshaded painting"
[adj] not reflecting light; not glossy; "flat wall paint"; "a photograph with a matte finish"
[adj] (of a tire) completely or partially deflated
[adj] having no depth or thickness
[adj] 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"
[adj] having a horizontal surface in which no part is higher or lower than another; "a flat desk"; "acres of level farmland"; "a plane surface"
[adj] (photography) lacking contrast or shading between tones
[adj] without pleats
[adj] parallel to the ground; "a flat roof"
[adj] not made with leavening; "most flat breads are made from unleavened dough"
[adj] (music) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone; "B flat"
[adj] not increasing as the amount taxed increases
[adj] not modified or restricted by reservations; "a categorical denial"; "a flat refusal"
[adj] lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea"
[adj] having lost effervescence; "flat beer"; "a flat cola"
[adj] lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; "a bland little drama"; "a flat joke"
[adj] (biology) flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
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Synonyms
apartment, bland, categoric, categorical, compressed, deflated, directly, dull, even, fixed, flat tire, flatbed, flatcar, flavorless, flavourless, horizontal, insipid, level, mat, matt, matte, matted, multidimensional, noneffervescent, planar, plane, pros
Related Terms
3-D, abeyant, absolute, absolutely, absonant, accented, accidental, accommodation, accordant, accumbent, achromatic, achromic, act drop, admitting no exception, alabaster, alike, alkali flat, all-out, alluvial plain, alveolar, anemic, apace, apartment, ap