flat

Adjective

• commercially inactive
  • flat sales for the month
    
  • prices remained flat
    
  • a flat market
    

• not reflecting light; not glossy
  • flat wall paint
    
  • a photograph with a matte finish
    

• 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
    

• horizontally level
  • a flat roof
    

• sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
  • the owl's faint monotonous hooting
    

• having lost effervescence
  • flat beer
    
  • a flat cola
    

• lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting
  • a bland little drama
    
  • a flat joke
    

• lacking taste or flavor or tang
  • a bland diet
    
  • insipid hospital food
    
  • flavorless supermarket tomatoes
    
  • vapid beer
    
  • vapid tea
    

• flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)

• (of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone
  • B flat
    

• lacking contrast or shading between tones

• stretched out and lying at full length along the ground
  • found himself lying flat on the floor
    

• not modified or restricted by reservations
  • a categorical denial
    
  • a flat refusal
    

• having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness
  • flat computer monitors
    

• having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another
  • a flat desk
    
  • acres of level farmland
    
  • a plane surface
    
  • skirts sewn with fine flat seams
    

Noun

• a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house

• scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting

• a deflated pneumatic tire

• freight car without permanent sides or roof

• a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named

• a shallow box in which seedlings are started

• a level tract of land
  • the salt flats of Utah
    

Adverb

• 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
    

• with flat sails
  • sail flat against the wind
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  mat , matt , matte , matted , two-dimensional , 2-dimensional , monotone , monotonic , monotonous , bland , flavorless , flavourless , insipid , savorless , savourless , vapid , compressed , prostrate , categoric , categorical , unconditional , level , plane , apartment , flat tire , flatcar , flatbed , dire
• Antonyms: 
  natural , sharp , contrasty , indirectly