flat

Meanings

• a level tract of land
  • "the salt flats of Utah"
• a shallow box in which seedlings are started
• a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named
• freight car without permanent sides or roof
• a deflated pneumatic tire
• scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting
• a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
• having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another
  • "a flat desk"
  • "skirts sewn with fine flat seams"
• having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness
  • "flat computer monitors"
• not modified or restricted by reservations
  • "a flat refusal"
• stretched out and lying at full length along the ground
  • "found himself lying flat on the floor"
• lacking contrast or shading between tones
• (of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone
  • "B flat"
• flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
• lacking taste or flavor or tang
• lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting
  • "a flat joke"
• having lost effervescence
  • "flat beer"
  • "a flat cola"
• sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
• horizontally level
  • "a flat roof"
• lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth
  • "a flat two-dimensional painting"
• not reflecting light; not glossy
  • "flat wall paint"
• commercially inactive
  • "flat sales for the month"
  • "prices remained flat"
  • "a flat market"
• with flat sails
  • "sail flat against the wind"
• in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly
  • "came out flat for less work and more pay"

Synonyms

2-dimensional, apartment, bland, categoric, categorical, compressed, directly, flat tire, flatbed, flatcar, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, level, mat, matt, matte, matted, monotone, monotonic, monotonous, plane, prostrate, savorless, savourless, straight, two-dimensional, unconditional, vapid