flat
1. a level tract of land (Freq. 2)
- the salt flats of Utah
• Hypernyms:
plain, field, champaign
• Hyponyms:
alluvial flat, alluvial plain, salt flat, salt plain
2. a shallow box in which seedlings are started (Freq. 1)
• Hypernyms:
box
3. a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named
• Hypernyms:
musical notation
• Hyponyms:
double flat
4. freight car without permanent sides or roof
• Syn:
flatcar, flatbed
• Hypernyms:
freight car
5. a deflated pneumatic tire
• Syn:
flat tire
• Hypernyms:
pneumatic tire, pneumatic tyre
6. scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas;
part of a stage setting
• Hypernyms:
scenery, scene
• Hyponyms:
coulisse, wing flat, tormenter, tormentor, teaser
• Part Holonyms:
mise en scene, stage setting, setting
7. a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
• Syn:
apartment
• Derivationally related forms:
flatlet
• Hypernyms:
housing, lodging, living accommodations
• Hyponyms:
bedsitting room, bedsitter, bedsit, cold-water flat, duplex apartment,
duplex, efficiency apartment, flatlet, maisonette, maisonnette, penthouse,
penthouse, studio apartment, studio, suite, rooms,
walk-up apartment, walk-up
• Part Holonyms:
apartment building, apartment house
• Part Meronyms:
kitchenette
1. having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another (Freq. 11)
- a flat desk
- acres of level farmland
- a plane surface
- skirts sewn with fine flat seams
• Syn:
level, plane
• Similar to:
even
• Derivationally related forms:
plane (for: plane), planeness (for: plane), flatness
2. having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness (Freq. 5)
- flat computer monitors
• Similar to:
planar, two-dimensional
• Derivationally related forms:
flatness
3. not modified or restricted by reservations (Freq. 2)
- a categorical denial
- a flat refusal
• Syn:
categoric, categorical, unconditional
• Similar to:
unqualified
4. stretched out and lying at full length along the ground (Freq. 2)
- found himself lying flat on the floor
• Syn:
prostrate
• Similar to:
unerect
5. lacking contrast or shading between tones (Freq. 1)
• Ant:
contrasty
• Derivationally related forms:
flatness
• Topics:
photography, picture taking
6. (of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone
- B flat
• Ant:
natural, sharp
• Topics:
music
7. having lost effervescence
- flat beer
- a flat cola
• Similar to:
noneffervescent
8. sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
- the owl's faint monotonous hooting
• Syn:
monotone, monotonic, monotonous
• Similar to:
unmodulated
• Derivationally related forms:
monotone (for: monotonic), monotone (for: monotone), flatness
9. horizontally level
- a flat roof
• Similar to:
horizontal
10. 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
• Syn:
two-dimensional, 2-dimensional
• Similar to:
multidimensional
• Derivationally related forms:
flatness
11. flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
• Syn:
compressed
• Similar to:
thin
• Derivationally related forms:
flatness
• Topics:
biology, biological science
12. lacking taste or flavor or tang
- a bland diet
- insipid hospital food
- flavorless supermarket tomatoes
- vapid beer
- vapid tea
• Syn:
bland, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless,
savourless, vapid
• Similar to:
tasteless
• Derivationally related forms:
savourlessness (for: savourless), savorlessness (for: savorless), insipidness (for: insipid), insipidity (for: insipid), flavourlessness (for: flavourless), flavorlessness (for: flavorless), flatness, blandness (for: bland)
13. lacking stimulating characteristics;
uninteresting
- a bland little drama
- a flat joke
• Syn:
bland
• Similar to:
unstimulating, unexciting
• Derivationally related forms:
flatness
14. not reflecting light;
not glossy
- flat wall paint
- a photograph with a matte finish
• Syn:
mat, matt, matte, matted
• Similar to:
dull
• Derivationally related forms:
matte (for: matte), matt (for: matt), flatness
15. commercially inactive
- flat sales for the month
- prices remained flat
- a flat market
• Similar to:
inactive
1. with flat sails
- sail flat against the wind
2. in a forthright manner;
candidly or frankly
- he didn't answer directly
- told me straight out
- came out flat for less work and more pay
• Syn:
directly, straight
• Ant:
indirectly (for: directly)
• Derived from adjective:
direct (for: directly)
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