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Sounds | flae't |
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Rhymes | acrobat, Arafat, aristocrat, and 60 more rhymes in aet at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | Having a horizontal surface in which no part is higher or lower than another. |
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Examples | "a flat desk" |
Synonyms | level, plane |
Similar to | even |
Meaning | Having no depth or thickness. |
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Similar to | planar, two-dimensional |
Meaning | Not modified or restricted by reservations. |
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Examples | "a flat refusal" |
Synonyms | categoric, categorical, unconditional |
Similar to | unqualified |
Adverbs | flatly |
Meaning | Stretched out and lying at full length along the ground. |
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Examples | "found himself lying flat on the floor" |
Synonyms | prostrate |
Similar to | unerect |
Meaning | Lacking contrast or shading between tones. |
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Category | photography, picture taking |
Similar | underdeveloped |
Contrary | contrasty |
Meaning | Lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone. |
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Examples | "B flat" |
Category | music |
Contrary | natural; sharp |
Meaning | Flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes). |
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Synonyms | compressed |
Category | biology, biological science |
Similar to | thin |
Meaning | Lacking taste or flavor or tang. |
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Synonyms | bland, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid |
Similar to | tasteless |
Meaning | Lacking stimulating characteristics. Uninteresting. |
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Examples | "a flat joke" |
Synonyms | bland |
Similar to | unstimulating, unexciting |
Meaning | Having lost effervescence. |
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Examples | "flat beer"; "a flat cola" |
Similar to | noneffervescent |
Meaning | Not increasing as the amount taxed increases. |
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Synonyms | fixed |
Similar to | regressive |
Meaning | Not made with leavening. |
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Examples | "most flat breads are made from unleavened dough" |
Synonyms | unraised |
Similar to | unleavened |
Meaning | Parallel to the ground. |
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Examples | "a flat roof" |
Similar to | horizontal |
Meaning | Without pleats. |
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Synonyms | unpleated |
Similar to | unfolded |
Meaning | Lacking the expected range or depth. Not designed to give an illusion or depth. |
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Examples | "a flat two-dimensional painting" |
Synonyms | two-dimensional |
Similar to | multidimensional |
Meaning | (of a tire) completely or partially deflated. |
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Similar to | deflated |
Meaning | Not reflecting light. Not glossy. |
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Examples | "flat wall paint" |
Synonyms | mat, matt, matte, matted |
Similar to | dull |
Meaning | Lacking variety in shading. |
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Examples | "a flat unshaded painting" |
Similar to | unshaded |
Meaning | A level tract of land. |
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Narrower | salt flat, salt plain |
Broader | plain, field, champaign |
Meaning | A shallow box in which seedlings are started. |
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Broader | box |
Meaning | A musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named. |
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Narrower | double flat |
Broader | musical notation |
Meaning | Freight car without permanent sides or roof. |
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Synonyms | flatcar, flatbed |
Broader | freight car |
Meaning | A deflated pneumatic tire. |
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Synonyms | flat tire |
Broader | pneumatic tire, pneumatic tyre |
Meaning | Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas. Part of a stage setting. |
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Part of | mise en scene, stage setting, setting |
Narrower | coulisse, wing flat; tormenter, tormentor, teaser |
Broader | scenery, scene |
Meaning | A suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house. |
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Synonyms | apartment |
Part of | apartment building, apartment house |
Parts | kitchenette |
Narrower | bedsitting room, bedsitter, bedsit; cold-water flat; duplex apartment, duplex; efficiency apartment; flatlet; maisonette, maisonnette; penthouse; railroad flat; studio apartment, studio; suite, rooms; walk-up apartment, walk-up |
Broader | housing, lodging, living accommodations |
Meaning | At full length. |
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Examples | "he fell flat on his face" |
Meaning | With flat sails. |
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Examples | "sail flat against the wind" |
Meaning | Below the proper pitch. |
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Examples | "she sang flat last night" |
Meaning | Against a flat surface. |
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Examples | "he lay flat on his back" |
Meaning | In a forthright manner. Candidly or frankly. |
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Examples | "came out flat for less work and more pay" |
Synonyms | directly, straight |
Contrary | indirectly |
Meaning | Wholly or completely. |
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Examples | "He is flat broke" |