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flat
(adjective) commercially inactive; “flat sales for the month”; “prices remained flat”; “a flat market”
flat, mat, matt, matte, matted
(adjective) not reflecting light; not glossy; “flat wall paint”; “a photograph with a matte finish”
flat
(adjective) having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness; “flat computer monitors”
dimensional, two-dimensional, flat
(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”
flat, level, plane
(adjective) having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another; “a flat desk”; “acres of level farmland”; “a plane surface”; “skirts sewn with fine flat seams”
flat
(adjective) lacking contrast or shading between tones
flat
(adjective) horizontally level; “a flat roof”
flat, prostrate
(adjective) stretched out and lying at full length along the ground; “found himself lying flat on the floor”
flat, monotone, monotonic, monotonous
(adjective) sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; “the owl’s faint monotonous hooting”
flat
(adjective) (of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone; “B flat”
categoric, categorical, flat, unconditional
(adjective) not modified or restricted by reservations; “a categorical denial”; “a flat refusal”
flat
(adjective) having lost effervescence; “flat beer”; “a flat cola”
bland, flat
(adjective) lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; “a bland little drama”; “a flat joke”
bland, flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid
(adjective) lacking taste or flavor or tang; “a bland diet”; “insipid hospital food”; “flavorless supermarket tomatoes”; “vapid beer”; “vapid tea”
compressed, flat
(adjective) flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
flattest
superlative form of flat: most flat
Source: Wiktionary
FLAT
Flat, a. [Compar. Flatter; superl. Flattest.] Etym: [Akin to Icel. flatr, Sw. flat, Dan. flad, OHG. flaz, and AS. flet floor, G. flötz stratum, layer.]
1. Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane. Though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. Milton.
2. Lying at full length, or spread out, upon the ground; level with the ground or earth; prostrate; as, to lie flat on the ground; hence, fallen; laid low; ruined; destroyed. What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat! Milton. I feel . . . my hopes all flat. Milton.
3. (Fine Arts)
Definition: Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest. A large part of the work is, to me, very flat. Coleridge.
4. Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste.
5. Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition. How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world. Shak.
6. Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat.
7. Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright. Flat burglary as ever was committed. Shak. A great tobacco taker too, -- that's flat. Marston.
8. (Mus.) (a) Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals, minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A flat. (b) Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound.
9. (Phonetics)
Definition: Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant. Flat arch. (Arch.) See under Arch, n., 2. (b).
– Flat cap, cap paper, not folded. See under Paper.
– Flat chasing, in fine art metal working, a mode of ornamenting silverware, etc., producing figures by dots and lines made with a punching tool. Knight.
– Flat chisel, a sculptor's chisel for smoothing.
– Flat file, a file wider than its thickness, and of rectangular section. See File.
– Flat nail, a small, sharp-pointed, wrought nail, with a flat, thin head, larger than a tack. Knight.
– Flat paper, paper which has not been folded.
– Flat rail, a railroad rail consisting of a simple flat bar spiked to a longitudinal sleeper.
– Flat rods (Mining), horizontal or inclined connecting rods, for transmitting motion to pump rods at a distance. Raymond.
– Flat rope, a rope made by plaiting instead of twisting; gasket; sennit.
Note: Some flat hoisting ropes, as for mining shafts, are made by sewing together a number of ropes, making a wide, flat band. Knight.
– Flat space. (Geom.) See Euclidian space.
– Flat stitch, the process of wood engraving. [Obs.] -- Flat tint (Painting), a coat of water color of one uniform shade.
– To fall flat (Fig.), to produce no effect; to fail in the intended effect; as, his speech fell flat. Of all who fell by saber or by shot, Not one fell half so flat as Walter Scott. Lord Erskine.
Flat, adv.
1. In a flat manner; directly; flatly. Sin is flat opposite to the Almighty. Herbert.
2. (Stock Exchange)
Definition: Without allowance for accrued interest. [Broker's Cant]
Flat, n.
1. A level surface, without elevation, relief, or prominences; an extended plain; specifically, in the United States, a level tract along the along the banks of a river; as, the Mohawk Flats. Envy is as the sunbeams that beat hotter upon a bank, or steep rising ground, than upon a flat. Bacon.
2. A level tract lying at little depth below the surface of water, or alternately covered and left bare by the tide; a shoal; a shallow; a strand. Half my power, this night Passing these flats, are taken by the tide. Shak.
3. Something broad and flat in form; as: (a) A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught. (b) A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned. (c) (Railroad Mach.) A car without a roof, the body of which is a platform without sides; a platform car. (d) A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are carried in processions.
4. The flat part, or side, of anything; as, the broad side of a blade, as distinguished from its edge.
5. (Arch.)
Definition: A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself.
6. (Mining)
Definition: A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal. Raymond.
7. A dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull. [Colloq.] Or if you can not make a speech, Because you are a flat. Holmes.
8. (Mus.)
Definition: A character [] before a note, indicating a tone which is a half step or semitone lower.
9. (Geom.)
Definition: A homaloid space or extension.
Flat, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flatted; p. pr. & vb. n. Flatting.]
1. To make flat; to flatten; to level.
2. To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress. Passions are allayed, appetites are flatted. Barrow.
3. To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
Flat, v. i.
1. To become flat, or flattened; to sink or fal to an even surface. Sir W. Temple.
2. (Mus.)
Definition: To fall form the pitch. To flat out, to fail from a promising beginning; to make a bad ending; to disappoint expectations. [Colloq.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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