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| 1) | having a horizontal surface in which no part is higher or lower than another; "a flat desk"; "acres of level farmland"; "a plane surface" |
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| Synonyms : | level plane |
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| 2) | having no depth or thickness |
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| 3) | not modified or restricted by reservations; "a categorical denial"; "a flat refusal" |
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| Synonyms : | categoric categorical unconditional |
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| unqualified |
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| 4) | stretched out and lying at full length along the ground; "found himself lying flat on the floor" |
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| Synonyms : | prostrate |
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| unerect |
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| 5) | lacking contrast or shading between tones |
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| underdeveloped photography contrasty |
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| 6) | lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone; "B flat" |
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| music natural sharp |
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| 7) | flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes) |
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| Synonyms : | compressed |
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| thin biological_science |
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| 8) | lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea" |
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| Synonyms : | bland flavorless flavourless insipid savorless savourless vapid |
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| tasteless |
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| 9) | lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; "a bland little drama"; "a flat joke" |
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| Synonyms : | bland |
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| unexciting |
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| 10) | having lost effervescence; "flat beer"; "a flat cola" |
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| 11) | not increasing as the amount taxed increases |
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| Synonyms : | fixed |
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| 12) | not made with leavening; "most flat breads are made from unleavened dough" |
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| Synonyms : | unraised |
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| 13) | parallel to the ground; "a flat roof" |
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| Synonyms : | unpleated |
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| unfolded |
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| 15) | 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" |
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| Synonyms : | two-dimensional |
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| 16) | (of a tire) completely or partially deflated |
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| 17) | not reflecting light; not glossy; "flat wall paint"; "a photograph with a matte finish" |
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| Synonyms : | mat matt matte matted |
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| 18) | lacking variety in shading; "a flat unshaded painting" |
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| flat [r] |
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| 1) | at full length; "he fell flat on his face" |
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| 2) | with flat sails; "sail flat against the wind" |
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| 3) | below the proper pitch; "she sang flat last night" |
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| 4) | against a flat surface; "he lay flat on his back" |
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| 5) | 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" |
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| Synonyms : | directly straight |
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| indirectly direct |
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| 6) | wholly or completely; "He is flat broke" |
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| flat [n] |
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| champaign salt_flat |
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| 2) | a shallow box in which seedlings are started |
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| 3) | a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named |
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| musical_notation double_flat |
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| 4) | freight car without permanent sides or roof |
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| Synonyms : | flatbed flatcar |
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| 5) | a deflated pneumatic tire |
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| Synonyms : | flat_tire |
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| 6) | scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting |
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| scene mise_en_scene coulisse teaser |
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| 7) | a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house |
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| Synonyms : | apartment |
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| housing apartment_building bedsit cold-water_flat duplex efficiency_apartment flatlet kitchenette maisonette penthouse railroad_flat studio rooms walk-up |
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