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Quick definitions from WordNet (flat)
▸ noun: scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting
▸ noun: a deflated pneumatic tire
▸ noun: a shallow box in which seedlings are started
▸ noun: a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named
▸ noun: a level tract of land
▸ noun: a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
▸ noun: freight car without permanent sides or roof
▸ adjective: parallel to the ground ("A flat roof")
▸ adjective: stretched out and lying at full length along the ground ("Found himself lying flat on the floor")
▸ adjective: not made with leavening ("Most flat breads are made from unleavened dough")
▸ adjective: lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone ("B flat")
▸ adjective: not increasing as the amount taxed increases
▸ adjective: having lost effervescence ("Flat beer")
▸ adjective: lacking variety in shading ("A flat unshaded painting")
▸ adjective: not reflecting light; not glossy ("Flat wall paint")
▸ adjective: (of a tire) completely or partially deflated
▸ adjective: having no depth or thickness
▸ adjective: having a horizontal surface in which no part is higher or lower than another ("A flat desk")
▸ adjective: lacking contrast or shading between tones
▸ adjective: without pleats
▸ adjective: lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting ("A flat joke")
▸ adjective: lacking taste or flavor or tang
▸ adjective: flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
▸ adjective: lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth ("A flat two-dimensional painting")
▸ adjective: not modified or restricted by reservations ("A flat refusal")
▸ adverb: wholly or completely ("He is flat broke")
▸ adverb: at full length ("He fell flat on his face")
▸ adverb: against a flat surface ("He lay flat on his back")
▸ adverb: below the proper pitch ("She sang flat last night")
▸ adverb: with flat sails ("Sail flat against the wind")
▸ adverb: in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly ("Came out flat for less work and more pay")
▸ Also see flattish
▸ Word origin
▸ Words similar to flat
▸ Usage examples for flat
▸ Idioms related to flat (New!)
▸ Popular adjectives describing flat
▸ Popular nouns described by flat
▸ Words that often appear near flat
▸ Rhymes of flat
▸ Invented words related to flat
▸ noun: scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting
▸ noun: a deflated pneumatic tire
▸ noun: a shallow box in which seedlings are started
▸ noun: a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named
▸ noun: a level tract of land
▸ noun: a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
▸ noun: freight car without permanent sides or roof
▸ adjective: parallel to the ground ("A flat roof")
▸ adjective: stretched out and lying at full length along the ground ("Found himself lying flat on the floor")
▸ adjective: not made with leavening ("Most flat breads are made from unleavened dough")
▸ adjective: lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone ("B flat")
▸ adjective: not increasing as the amount taxed increases
▸ adjective: having lost effervescence ("Flat beer")
▸ adjective: lacking variety in shading ("A flat unshaded painting")
▸ adjective: not reflecting light; not glossy ("Flat wall paint")
▸ adjective: (of a tire) completely or partially deflated
▸ adjective: having no depth or thickness
▸ adjective: having a horizontal surface in which no part is higher or lower than another ("A flat desk")
▸ adjective: lacking contrast or shading between tones
▸ adjective: without pleats
▸ adjective: lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting ("A flat joke")
▸ adjective: lacking taste or flavor or tang
▸ adjective: flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
▸ adjective: lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth ("A flat two-dimensional painting")
▸ adjective: not modified or restricted by reservations ("A flat refusal")
▸ adverb: wholly or completely ("He is flat broke")
▸ adverb: at full length ("He fell flat on his face")
▸ adverb: against a flat surface ("He lay flat on his back")
▸ adverb: below the proper pitch ("She sang flat last night")
▸ adverb: with flat sails ("Sail flat against the wind")
▸ adverb: in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly ("Came out flat for less work and more pay")
▸ Also see flattish
▸ Word origin
▸ Words similar to flat
▸ Usage examples for flat
▸ Idioms related to flat (New!)
▸ Popular adjectives describing flat
▸ Popular nouns described by flat
▸ Words that often appear near flat
▸ Rhymes of flat
▸ Invented words related to flat