Usually means: Fail to achieve the desired.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. fall flat: Merriam-Webster
  2. fall flat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fall flat: Collins English Dictionary
  4. fall flat: Vocabulary.com
  5. fall flat: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. fall flat: Wiktionary
  7. fall flat: Dictionary.com
  8. fall flat: Rhymezone
  9. Fall Flat: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  10. fall flat: FreeDictionary.org
  11. fall flat: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. fall flat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. fall flat: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fall flat: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fall flat: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FALL FLAT: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fall flat)

▸ verb:  To produce no humour, inspiration, etc.

Similar:
fall through, flop, founder, fall to the ground, flat out, come to nought, come to nothing, fall flat on one's face, ineffectualize, fail, more...

Opposite:
succeed, thrive, flourish, prosper

Types:
fizzle, flop, fail, bombs, more...

Phrases:
fall flat on face, to fall flat, fall flat on one's face, fall flat on ones face, fall flat on your face, more...

Adjectives:
flat out, fallen, downfallen, ebb, chopfallen, down, fade, broke, downtrodden, fail, prostrate

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Similar:
fall through, flop, founder, fall to the ground, flat out, come to nought, come to nothing, fall flat on one's face, ineffectualize, fail, more...

Opposite:
succeed, thrive, flourish, prosper

Types:
fizzle, flop, fail, bombs, more...

Phrases:
fall flat on face, to fall flat, fall flat on one's face, fall flat on ones face, fall flat on your face, more...

Adjectives:
flat out, fallen, downfallen, ebb, chopfallen, down, fade, broke, downtrodden, fail, prostrate



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