Dictionary Definition
flat adj
1 having a horizontal surface in which no part is
higher or lower than another; "a flat desk"; "acres of level
farmland"; "a plane surface" [syn: level, plane]
2 having no depth or thickness
3 not modified or restricted by reservations; "a
categorical denial"; "a flat refusal" [syn: categoric, categorical, unconditional]
4 stretched out and lying at full length along
the ground; "found himself lying flat on the floor" [syn: prostrate]
5 lacking contrast or shading between tones [ant:
contrasty]
7 flattened laterally along the whole length
(e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes) [syn: compressed]
8 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]
9 lacking stimulating characteristics;
uninteresting; "a bland little drama"; "a flat joke" [syn: bland]
10 having lost effervescence; "flat beer"; "a
flat cola"
11 not increasing as the amount taxed increases
[syn: fixed]
12 not made with leavening; "most flat breads are
made from unleavened dough" [syn: unraised]
13 parallel to the ground; "a flat roof"
14 without pleats [syn: unpleated]
15 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]
16 (of a tire) completely or partially
deflated
17 not reflecting light; not glossy; "flat wall
paint"; "a photograph with a matte finish" [syn: mat, matt, matte, matted]
18 lacking variety in shading; "a flat unshaded
painting"
Noun
1 a level tract of land
2 a shallow box in which seedlings are
started
3 a musical notation indicating one half step
lower than the note named
5 a deflated pneumatic tire [syn: flat
tire]
6 scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered
with painted canvas; part of a stage setting
7 a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an
apartment house [syn: apartment] adv
1 at full length; "he fell flat on his
face"
2 with flat sails; "sail flat against the
wind"
3 below the proper pitch; "she sang flat last
night"
4 against a flat surface; "he lay flat on his
back"
5 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]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- , /flæt/, /fl
Extensive Definition
Flat or flats may refer
to:
- Flatness
- Flat (music), a symbol which denotes a lower pitch (music flat)
- Flat (domicile), an apartment
- Flat (geometry), the generalization of lines and planes in an n-dimensional Euclidean space
- flats (toy soldier) two-dimensional toy soldiers made of tin or plastic
- Flats (theatre), flat pieces of theatrical scenery
- Flats (USPS), an oversized letter
Places
- Flat, Alaska, United States
- Flat, Missouri, United States
- Flat, Puy-de-Dôme, a commune in région Auvergne, France
- Flat, Texas, United States
- The Flats, Cleveland, Ohio, United States
- Flat Island, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
- Flat Brook, tributary of the Delaware River in Sussex County, New Jersey
- Flat River (North Carolina), river in Southern Person County, North Carolina
- Flats, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Hardy County, West Virginia, USA
Other uses
- Racing flats, lightweight shoes used primarily for running a race
- Flat, a space without curvature (formally, with zero curvature)
- Flats, women's shoes with almost no heel at all
- A flat tire
- Flat, an anagram or puzzle in verse, the primary form of wordplay before crosswords came along
- Flatcar, an open container on wheels designed to carry heavy loads
flat in Japanese:
フラット
flat in Thai:
แฟลต
flat in Volapük:
Flat
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
3-D, Pullman, Pullman car, abeyant, absolute, absolutely, absonant, accented, accidental, accommodation, accordant, accumbent, achromatic, achromic, act drop, admitting
no exception, alabaster, alike, alkali flat, all-out,
alluvial plain, alveolar, anemic, apace, apartment, apathetic, apical, apico-alveolar,
apico-dental, arid,
arrowlike, articulated, asbestos, asbestos board,
ashen, ashy, assimilated, at full length,
at full speed, at once, atonal, automatic, back, backdrop, baggage car, balanced, baldly, bank, bar, barren, barytone, basin, bated, batten, beat, betting house, betting
parlor, bilabial,
billiard table, blah,
bland, blank, bled white, bloodless, bog, bony, border, boring, bottomland, bowling alley,
bowling green, boxcar,
brashly, brazenly, breve, broad, broke, bushveld, busted, caboose, cacophonous, cacuminal, cadaverous, campestral, campestrian, campo, car, carriage, casino, cataleptic, catatonic, categorical, categorically, central, cerebral, certain, chair car, chambers, champaign, champaign country,
characterless,
checked, chloranemic, clear, clerestory, close, cloth, coach, coal car, coastal plain,
cold, cold-water flat,
collapsed, colorless, common, commonplace, complete, completely, conclusive, consistent, consonant, consonantal, constant, continuant, continuous, coral reef,
couchant, couche, coulisse, counterweight, covered
waggon, cracked,
crawling, creamy, crib, crotchet, crouched, cubic, curtain, curtain board, cyclorama, damped, dampened, day coach, dead, dead flat, dead level, dead
straight, deadened,
deadly pale, deathly pale, debased, decided, decisive, decor, decumbent, definite, definitely, definitive, deflated, delicate, delta, demisemiquaver, dental, depressed, desert, determinate, diaphonic, digs, dilute, diluted, dim, dimensional, dimmed, diner, dinghy, dingy, dining car, direct, directly, discolored, disconsonant, discordant, disharmonic, disharmonious, dismal, dissimilated, dissonant, dominant, dominant note,
dopey, dormant, dorsal, double whole note,
down, downright, downs, downy, drab, draggy, draped, drawing room, drearisome, dreary, drop, drop curtain, dry, dryasdust, dull, dulled, duplex, duplex apartment,
dusty, earth, effete, eggshell, eighth note, elephantine, empty, enharmonic, enharmonic note,
entire, entresol, equable, equal, esplanade, etiolated, even, evenly, exact, exactly, explicit, express, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, fade, faded, faint, fallow, featureless, fell, fen, final, fire curtain, firm, first floor, fixed, flat, flat broke, flat country,
flat out, flat-chested, flat-out, flatcar, flatland, flatly, flats, flattened, flatways, flatwise, flavorless, fleshless, flipper, floor, flush, ford, forthwith, foul, fourth-dimensional, front, gambling den, gambling
hall, gambling hell, gambling house, gaming house, gangling, gangly, garden apartment,
gaunt, gawky, ghastly, glabrate, glabrescent, glabrous, glass, glide, global, gloss, glossal, glottal, gondola, grass veld, grassland, grating, gray, groggy, ground, ground floor, groveling, gruelly, guttural, haggard, half note, hanging, hard, harsh, heath, heavy, hell, hell for leather, hemidemisemiquaver,
high, ho-hum, hollow, homaloid, homaloidal, homogeneous, horizontal, horizontal axis,
horizontal fault, horizontal line, horizontal parallax, horizontal
plane, horizontal projection, horizontally, hueless, humdrum, hypochromic, ice, immediately, immelodious, immutable, implicit, in a line, in
abeyance, in suspense, inactive, inane, inappealable, indifferent, indisputable, indubitable, inert, inexcitable, inharmonic, inharmonious, insipid, intonated, invariable, iridescent, irrevocable, irrevocably, ivory, jejune, joint, knee-high, knocked flat,
labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lackluster, laid low,
lande, languid, languorous, lank, lanky, latent, lateral, lax, leaden, lean, lean-fleshed, lean-looking,
ledge, leiotrichous, lengthways, lengthwise, level, level line, level plane,
lifeless, light, like a shot, like greased
lightning, lineal,
linear, lingual, liquid, livid, living quarters, llano, local, lodgings, logy, lolling, lounging, low, low-built, low-hung, low-level,
low-leveled, low-lying, low-set, low-spirited, low-statured,
lowland, lowlands, luggage van, lunar
mare, lurid, lusterless, lying, lying down, mahogany, mail car, mail van,
marble, mare, marsh, mat, matte, matter-of-fact, meager, mealy, mean sea level, measured, mechanical, mellow, mesa, mesilla, methodic, mezzanine, mezzanine floor,
mid, mild, milk-and-water, minim, monolithic, monophthongal, monotonous, moor, moorland, mother-of-pearl,
muddy, muffled, mundane, musical note, musicless, muted, nacreous, narrow, nasal, nasalized, natural, neap, neutral, nonmelodious, note, occlusive, of a piece,
off, off-key, off-tone, on a
level, on the run, oofless, opalescent, open, open country, openly, ordered, orderly, ordinary, out of pitch, out of
tone, out of tune, out-and-out, outright, outspread, outstretched, overthrown, oxytone, palace car, palatal, palatalized, pale, pale as death, pale-faced,
pallid, pampa, pampas, pappy, parlor car, parterre, passenger car,
passive, pastel, pasty, patent note, patinaed, pearly, pedestrian, peneplain, penthouse, peremptory, perfect, persistent, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phlegmatic, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, plain, plainly, plains, plane, plateau, platform, playa, plodding, poetryless, pointless, poky, ponderous, poolroom, positive, positively, posttonic, prairie, prairies, precise, precisely, procumbent, prone, proportional, prosaic, prosing, prostrate, prosy, pulpy, punctured, quarter note,
quaver, quickly, quiet, rag, railroad flat, railway car,
rapidly, raucous, rawboned, reclining, rectilineal, rectilinear, recumbent, reef, reefer, refrigerator car,
regular, rental, report, reposing, responding note,
resupine, retroflex, rez-de-chaussee,
right, robotlike, rolled, roomette, rooms, round, rounded, ruler-straight,
runty, ruptured, sad, sallow, salt flat, salt marsh,
salt pan, sandals,
sandbank, sandbar, sapless, satin, savanna, savorless, scene, scenery, scraggy, scrawny, screen, sea level, sea of grass,
sebkha, sedentary, semibreve, semigloss, semiquaver, semivowel, set of rooms,
shallow, shallows, shaped note, sharp, shelf, shoal, shoal water, short, shrill, sickly, side scene, silk, simple, sixteenth note,
sixty-fourth note, skeletal, skinny, slack, sleeper, sleeping, slide, slow, sluggish, slumbering, smoker, smoking car, smoldering, smooth, smooth-shaven,
smooth-textured, smoothed out, smoothened, smothered, sober, soft, soft-colored, soft-hued,
softened, solemn, somber, sonant, sordo, sour, space, space-time, spare, spatial, spatiotemporal, speedily, spherical, spiccato, spiceless, spidery, spindling, spindly, spiritless, sporting house,
sprawled, sprawling, spread, spread out, squashed, squashed flat,
squat, squatty, stable, staccato, stage screw, stagnant, stale, standard, standing, static, steadfast, steady, steppe, steppes, stereoscopic, sterile, stiff, stifled, stockcar, stodgy, stone-broke, stony, stooped, stopped, story, straight, straight-cut,
straight-front, straight-out, straight-side, strand, strapped, streamlined, street floor,
stressed, stretched
out, strident, strong, studio, stuffy, stumpy, suave, subdued, subtle, suite, superficial, supine, surd, sure, surface, sustained note,
swamp, sweet, swiftly, syllabic, systematic, tab, table, tableau, tableland, tabloid, tabular, tallow-faced, tame, tank, tasteless, teaser, tedious, tender, tenement, tennis court,
tense, tercet, terrace, thick, thin, thin-bellied, thin-fleshed,
thirty-second note, three-dimensional, throaty, tidal flats, tired, tiresome, tonal, tone, toneless, tonic, tormentor, torpid, total, transformation,
transformation scene, tree veld, triplet, triplex, trodden, trodden flat, truck, true, tundra, tuneless, twangy, twiggy, two-dimensional, unaccented, unambiguous, unaroused, unbending, unbent, unbowed, unbroken, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, uncircumscribed,
uncolored, uncompromisingly,
unconditional,
unconditioned,
uncurved, undeflected, undersized, underweight, undeviating, undifferentiated,
undistorted,
undiversified,
undoubting, unelevated, unembellished, unequivocal, unexciting, unflavored, unhampered, unharmonious, unhesitating, unidealistic, uniform, unimaginative, unimpassioned, uninteresting, uninterrupted, unlimited, unlively, unmelodious, unmistakable, unmitigated, unmodifiable, unmodified, unmusical, unpalatable, unpoetic, unpolished, unqualified, unquestionable, unquestioning, unrealistic, unreserved, unrestricted, unromantic, unrough, unroughened, unrounded, unruffled, unsavory, unshiny, unstressed, unswerving, untunable, untuned, untuneful, unturned, unvaried, unvarying, unwaivable, upland, upright, utter, utterly, van, vapid, vega, velar, veld, velvet, vertical, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, volumetric, vowel, vowellike, waggon, wan, washed-out, washy, water level, watered, watered-down, watery, waxen, weak, weald, wetlands, whey-faced, white, whole, whole note, wholly, wide, wide-open spaces, wing, wingcut, wishy-washy, without
delay, without exception, without reserve, wold, woodcut, wooden