noun
a level tract of land
Examples
- the salt flats of Utah
noun
a shallow box in which seedlings are started
noun
a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named
noun
freight car without permanent sides or roof
Synonyms
noun
a deflated pneumatic tire
Synonyms
flat tire
noun
scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
Examples
- part of a stage setting
noun
a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
Synonyms
adjective
having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another
Synonyms
Examples
- a flat desk
- acres of level farmland
- a plane surface
- skirts sewn with fine flat seams
adjective
having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness
Examples
- flat computer monitors
adjective
not modified or restricted by reservations
Synonyms
Examples
- a categorical denial
- a flat refusal
adjective
stretched out and lying at full length along the ground
Synonyms
Examples
- found himself lying flat on the floor
adjective
lacking contrast or shading between tones
adjective
(of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone
Examples
- B flat
adjective
flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
Synonyms
adjective
lacking taste or flavor or tang
Synonyms
Examples
- a bland diet
- insipid hospital food
- flavorless supermarket tomatoes
- vapid beer
- vapid tea
adjective
lacking stimulating characteristics
Synonyms
Examples
- uninteresting
- a bland little drama
- a flat joke
adjective
having lost effervescence
Examples
- flat beer
- a flat cola
adjective
sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
Synonyms
Examples
- the owl's faint monotonous hooting
adjective
horizontally level
Examples
- a flat roof
adjective
lacking the expected range or depth
Synonyms
two-dimensional
2-dimensional
Examples
- not designed to give an illusion or depth
- a film with two-dimensional characters
- a flat two-dimensional painting
adjective
not reflecting light
Synonyms
Examples
- not glossy
- flat wall paint
- a photograph with a matte finish
adjective
commercially inactive
Examples
- flat sales for the month
- prices remained flat
- a flat market
adverb
with flat sails
Examples
- sail flat against the wind
adverb
in a forthright manner
Synonyms
Examples
- candidly or frankly
- he didn't answer directly
- told me straight out
- came out flat for less work and more pay