Meaning of 'flat'

adjective

lacking taste or flavor or tang

Synonyms: bland insipid vapid flavorless flavourless savorless savourless

adjective

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

Synonyms: compressed

noun

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

Synonyms: apartment

noun

scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas

noun

a deflated pneumatic tire

Synonyms: flat tire

noun

a shallow box in which seedlings are started

noun

freight car without permanent sides or roof

Synonyms: flatbed flatcar

noun

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

noun

a level tract of land

Example: "the salt flats of Utah"

adverb

in a forthright manner

Synonyms: straight

adverb

with flat sails

Example: "sail flat against the wind"

adjective

commercially inactive

Example: "flat sales for the month"

adjective

not reflecting light

Synonyms: matted mat matt matte

adjective

having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness

Example: "flat computer monitors"

adjective

lacking the expected range or depth

Synonyms: two-dimensional

adjective

having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another

Example: "a flat desk"

Synonyms: level plane

adjective

lacking contrast or shading between tones

adjective

horizontally level

Example: "a flat roof"

adjective

stretched out and lying at full length along the ground

Example: "found himself lying flat on the floor"

Synonyms: prostrate

adjective

sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch

Synonyms: monotonous monotone monotonic

adjective

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

adjective

not modified or restricted by reservations

Synonyms: unconditional categoric categorical

adjective

having lost effervescence

Example: "flat beer"

adjective

lacking stimulating characteristics

Synonyms: bland