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