flat

(noun) a level tract of land. Examples: "The salt flats of utah."

(noun) a shallow box in which seedlings are started.

(noun) a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named.

(noun) freight car without permanent sides or roof. Synonyms: flatcar, flatbed.

(noun) a deflated pneumatic tire. Synonyms: flat tire.

(noun) scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting.

(noun) a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house. Synonyms: apartment.

(adj) having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another. Synonyms: level, plane. Examples: "A flat desk." "Acres of level farmland." "A plane surface." "Skirts sewn with fine flat seams."

(adj) having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness. Examples: "Flat computer monitors."

(adj) not modified or restricted by reservations. Synonyms: categoric, categorical, unconditional. Examples: "A categorical denial." "A flat refusal."

(adj) stretched out and lying at full length along the ground. Synonyms: prostrate. Examples: "Found himself lying flat on the floor."

(adj) lacking contrast or shading between tones. Synonyms: flat (vs. contrasty).

(adj) (of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone. Synonyms: flat (vs. natural) (vs. sharp). Examples: "B flat."

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

(adj) lacking taste or flavor or tang. Synonyms: bland, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid. Examples: "A bland diet." "Insipid hospital food." "Flavorless supermarket tomatoes." "Vapid beer." "Vapid tea."

(adj) lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting. Synonyms: bland. Examples: "A bland little drama." "A flat joke."

(adj) having lost effervescence. Examples: "Flat beer." "A flat cola."

(adj) sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch. Synonyms: monotone, monotonic, monotonous. Examples: "The owl's faint monotonous hooting."

(adj) horizontally level. Examples: "A flat roof."

(adj) lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth. Synonyms: two-dimensional, 2-dimensional. Examples: "A film with two-dimensional characters." "A flat two-dimensional painting."

(adj) not reflecting light; not glossy. Synonyms: mat, matt, matte, matted. Examples: "Flat wall paint." "A photograph with a matte finish."

(adj) commercially inactive. Examples: "Flat sales for the month." "Prices remained flat." "A flat market."

(adv) with flat sails. Examples: "Sail flat against the wind."

(adv) in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly. Synonyms: directly, straight. Examples: "He didn't answer directly." "Told me straight out." "Came out flat for less work and more pay."