Flat

Adjective

 * 1) Having no variations in altitude.
 * 2)  Deflated, especially because of a puncture.
 * 3)  Lowered by one semitone.
 * 4)  Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be.
 * 5)  Without variations in pitch.
 * 6) Of a carbonated drink, with all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the drink no longer fizzes or contains any bubbles.
 * 7) Uninteresting.
 * 8)  Lacking acidity without being sweet.
 * 9) Absolute.
 * 10)  Describing certain features, usually the breasts or buttocks, that are extremely small or not visible at all.
 * 11)  Unable to generate power; dead.
 * 12)  without spin; spinless.

Adverb

 * 1) So as to be flat.
 * 2) Bluntly.
 * 3)  Not exceeding.
 * 4) Completely.

Noun

 * 1) An area of level ground.
 * 2)  A note played a semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ sign placed after the letter representing the note (e.g., B♭) or in front of the note symbol (e.g. ♭♪).
 * 3)  A flat tyre/tire.
 * 4)  A type of ladies' shoes with very low heels.
 * She liked to walk in her flats more than in her high heels.
 * 1)  A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolor/watercolour painting.
 * 2) The flat part of something:
 * 3)  The flat side of a blade, as opposed to the sharp edge.
 * 4) The palm of the hand, with the adjacent part of the fingers.
 * 5) A wide, shallow container.
 * 6)  An apartment.

Verb

 * 1)  To make a flat call; to call without raising.

Adverbs for Flat
monotonously; tiresomely; vapidly; disagreeably; invariably; intolerably; uninterestingly; wearily; tediously; endlessly.

Synonyms for Flat

 * noun
 * 1)  apartment


 * adjective
 * 1)  even, planar, plane, smooth, uniform
 * 2)  deflated or punctured
 * 3)  monotone
 * 4)  boring, dull, uninteresting
 * 5)  flabby
 * 6) tasteless, insipid, depressed, heavy, unpleasing, dejected, spiritless, prostrate, fallen, horizontal, level, positive, low, absolute, plane, flush.


 * adverb
 * 1)  bluntly, curtly
 * 2)  tops
 * 3)  absolutely, completely, utterly
 * 1)  absolutely, completely, utterly

Antonyms for Flat

 * bumpy, cratered, hilly, rough , wrinkled
 * sharp
 * sharp
 * sharp
 * high heels
 * acrid, bubbling, effervescing, lively, spirited, keen, frothy, raised, round, elevated, uneven, rugged, mountainous.

Derived terms

 * flatly
 * flatness
 * flat out
 * flatten
 * that's flat
 * flat as a pancake
 * flat-footed
 * flat rate
 * flatten
 * that's flat
 * flatlet
 * flatmate

Thesaurus
alluvial plain, alveolar, anemic, apace, apartment, apathetic, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, arid, arrowlike, articulated, asbestos, asbestos board, ashen, ashy, assimilated, at full length, at full speed, at once, atonal, automatic, back, backdrop, baggage car, balanced, baldly, bank, bar, barren, barytone, basin, bated, batten, beat, betting house, betting parlor, bilabial, billiard table, blah, bland, blank, bled white, bloodless, bog, bony, border, boring, bottomland, bowling alley, bowling green, boxcar, brashly, brazenly, breve, broad, broke, bushveld, busted, caboose, cacophonous, cacuminal, cadaverous, campestral, campestrian, campo, car, carriage, casino, cataleptic, catatonic, categorical, categorically, central, cerebral, certain, chair car, chambers, champaign, champaign country, characterless, checked, chloranemic, clear, clerestory, close, cloth, coach, coal car, coastal plain, cold, cold-water flat, collapsed, colorless, common, commonplace, complete, completely, conclusive, consistent, consonant, consonantal, constant, continuant, continuous, coral reef, couchant, couche, coulisse, counterweight, covered waggon, cracked, crawling, creamy, crib, crotchet, crouched, cubic, curtain, curtain board, cyclorama, damped, dampened, day coach, dead, dead flat, dead level, dead straight, deadened, deadly pale, deathly pale, debased, decided, decisive, decor, decumbent, definite, definitely, definitive, deflated, delicate, delta, demisemiquaver, dental, depressed, desert, determinate, diaphonic, digs, dilute, diluted, dim, dimensional, dimmed, diner, dinghy, dingy, dining car, direct, directly, discolored, disconsonant, discordant, disharmonic, disharmonious, dismal, dissimilated, dissonant, dominant, dominant note, dopey, dormant, dorsal, double whole note, down, downright, downs, downy, drab, draggy, draped, drawing room, drearisome, dreary, drop, drop curtain, dry, dryasdust, dull, dulled, duplex, duplex apartment, dusty, earth, effete, eggshell, eighth note, elephantine, empty, enharmonic, enharmonic note, entire, entresol, equable, equal, esplanade, etiolated, even, evenly, exact, exactly, explicit, express, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, fade, faded, faint, fallow, featureless, fell, fen, final, fire curtain, firm, first floor, fixed, flat, flat broke, flat country, flat out, flat-chested, flat-out, flatcar, flatland, flatly, flats, flattened, flatways, flatwise, flavorless, fleshless, flipper, floor, flush, ford, forthwith, foul, fourth-dimensional, front, gambling den, gambling hall, gambling hell, gambling house, gaming house, gangling, gangly, garden apartment, gaunt, gawky, ghastly, glabrate, glabrescent, glabrous, glass, glide, global, gloss, glossal, glottal, gondola, grass veld, grassland, grating, gray, groggy, ground, ground floor, groveling, gruelly, guttural, haggard, half note, hanging, hard, harsh, heath, heavy, hell, hell for leather, hemidemisemiquaver, high, ho-hum, hollow, homaloid, homaloidal, homogeneous, horizontal, horizontal axis, horizontal fault, horizontal line, horizontal parallax, horizontal plane, horizontal projection, horizontally, hueless, humdrum, hypochromic, ice, immediately, immelodious, immutable, implicit, in a line, in abeyance, in suspense, inactive, inane, inappealable, indifferent, indisputable, indubitable, inert, inexcitable, inharmonic, inharmonious, insipid, intonated, invariable, iridescent, irrevocable, irrevocably, ivory, jejune, joint, knee-high, knocked flat, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lackluster, laid low, lande, languid, languorous, lank, lanky, latent, lateral, lax, leaden, lean, lean-fleshed, lean-looking, ledge, leiotrichous, lengthways, lengthwise, level, level line, level plane, lifeless, light, like a shot, like greased lightning, lineal, linear, lingual, liquid, livid, living quarters, llano, local, lodgings, logy, lolling, lounging, low, low-built, low-hung, low-level, low-leveled, low-lying, low-set, low-spirited, low-statured, lowland, lowlands, luggage van, lunar mare, lurid, lusterless, lying, lying down, mahogany, mail car, mail van, marble, mare, marsh, mat, matte, matter-of-fact, meager, mealy, mean sea level, measured, mechanical, mellow, mesa, mesilla, methodic, mezzanine, mezzanine floor, mid, mild, milk-and-water, minim, monolithic, monophthongal, monotonous, moor, moorland, mother-of-pearl, muddy, muffled, mundane, musical note, musicless, muted, nacreous, narrow, nasal, nasalized, natural, neap, neutral, nonmelodious, note, occlusive, of a piece, off, off-key, off-tone, on a level, on the run, oofless, opalescent, open, open country, openly, ordered, orderly, ordinary, out of pitch, out of tone, out of tune, out-and-out, outright, outspread, outstretched, overthrown, oxytone, palace car, palatal, palatalized, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, pampa, pampas, pappy, parlor car, parterre, passenger car, passive, pastel, pasty, patent note, patinaed, pearly, pedestrian, peneplain, penthouse, peremptory, perfect, persistent, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phlegmatic, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, plain, plainly, plains, plane, plateau, platform, playa, plodding, poetryless, pointless, poky, ponderous, poolroom, positive, positively, posttonic, prairie, prairies, precise, precisely, procumbent, prone, proportional, prosaic, prosing, prostrate, prosy, pulpy, punctured, quarter note, quaver, quickly, quiet, rag, railroad flat, railway car, rapidly, raucous, rawboned, reclining, rectilineal, rectilinear, recumbent, reef, reefer, refrigerator car, regular, rental, report, reposing, responding note, resupine, retroflex, rez-de-chaussee, right, robotlike, rolled, roomette, rooms, round, rounded, ruler-straight, runty, ruptured, sad, sallow, salt flat, salt marsh, salt pan, sandals, sandbank, sandbar, sapless, satin, savanna, savorless, scene, scenery, scraggy, scrawny, screen, sea level, sea of grass, sebkha, sedentary, semibreve, semigloss, semiquaver, semivowel, set of rooms, shallow, shallows, shaped note, sharp, shelf, shoal, shoal water, short, shrill, sickly, side scene, silk, simple, sixteenth note, sixty-fourth note, skeletal, skinny, slack, sleeper, sleeping, slide, slow, sluggish, slumbering, smoker, smoking car, smoldering, smooth, smooth-shaven, smooth-textured, smoothed out, smoothened, smothered, sober, soft, soft-colored, soft-hued, softened, solemn, somber, sonant, sordo, sour, space, space-time, spare, spatial, spatiotemporal, speedily, spherical, spiccato, spiceless, spidery, spindling, spindly, spiritless, sporting house, sprawled, sprawling, spread, spread out, squashed, squashed flat, squat, squatty, stable, staccato, stage screw, stagnant, stale, standard, standing, static, steadfast, steady, steppe, steppes, stereoscopic, sterile, stiff, stifled, stockcar, stodgy, stone-broke, stony, stooped, stopped, story, straight, straight-cut, straight-front, straight-out, straight-side, strand, strapped, streamlined, street floor, stressed, stretched out, strident, strong, studio, stuffy, stumpy, suave, subdued, subtle, suite, superficial, supine, surd, sure, surface, sustained note, swamp, sweet, swiftly, syllabic, systematic, tab, table, tableau, tableland, tabloid, tabular, tallow-faced, tame, tank, tasteless, teaser, tedious, tender, tenement, tennis court, tense, tercet, terrace, thick, thin, thin-bellied, thin-fleshed, thirty-second note, three-dimensional, throaty, tidal flats, tired, tiresome, tonal, tone, toneless, tonic, tormentor, torpid, total, transformation, transformation scene, tree veld, triplet, triplex, trodden, trodden flat, truck, true, tundra, tuneless, twangy, twiggy, two-dimensional, unaccented, unambiguous, unaroused, unbending, unbent, unbowed, unbroken, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, uncircumscribed, uncolored, uncompromisingly, unconditional, unconditioned, uncurved, undeflected, undersized, underweight, undeviating, undifferentiated, undistorted, undiversified, undoubting, unelevated, unembellished, unequivocal, unexciting, unflavored, unhampered, unharmonious, unhesitating, unidealistic, uniform, unimaginative, unimpassioned, uninteresting, uninterrupted, unlimited, unlively, unmelodious, unmistakable, unmitigated, unmodifiable, unmodified, unmusical, unpalatable, unpoetic, unpolished, unqualified, unquestionable, unquestioning, unrealistic, unreserved, unrestricted, unromantic, unrough, unroughened, unrounded, unruffled, unsavory, unshiny, unstressed, unswerving, untunable, untuned, untuneful, unturned, unvaried, unvarying, unwaivable, upland, upright, utter, utterly, van, vapid, vega, velar, veld, velvet, vertical, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, volumetric, vowel, vowellike, waggon, wan, washed-out, washy, water level, watered, watered-down, watery, waxen, weak, weald, wetlands, whey-faced, white, whole, whole note, wholly, wide, wide-open spaces,

Pronunciation

 * ,, {{SAMPA|/fl{t/}}

Etymology

 * 1) From  flatr: (Danish flad:), akin to German Flöz:, Sanskrit प्रत्हस्:.
 * 2) 1795, alteration of  flet:, from  flet: from  flet:, flett:, from  from  from . Akin to  flet: "dwelling, house". More at flat 1.

Adjective

 * Albanian: rrafshtë
 * Arabic: مسطح
 * Armenian: ,
 * Basque:, , ordeka
 * Catalan:
 * Croatian:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Hebrew: שטוח
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 平らな (たいらな, tairana)


 * Korean: 판판하다 (panpan-hada), 평평하다 (平平-, pyeongpyeong-hada)
 * Latvian: plakans, lēzens
 * Lithuanian: plokščias, lėkštas
 * Macedonian: рамен
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian:
 * Sardinian: pranu
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu: బల్లపరుపు (ballaparupu)


 * Albanian: (e) shfryrë
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, ,
 * German:


 * Indonesian: kempes
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: издишана
 * Polish: sflaczały, flakowaty
 * Slovene:
 * Telugu: అరిగిన


 * Albanian: rrafshët
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:


 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: monotonny
 * Slovene:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: చదునైన


 * Albanian:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Italian:


 * Macedonian: бемол
 * Norwegian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovene:
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Polish:


 * Portuguese:
 * Slovene:
 * Swedish:


 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:


 * Italian:
 * Polish: odgazowany, zwietrzały, wygazowany
 * Slovene:
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian: dødt


 * Polish:, bezbarwny
 * Portuguese:
 * Slovene:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: ఆసక్తి లేని


 * Danish: ,
 * French: à plat
 * Indonesian: habis


 * Norwegian: dødt
 * Polish: wyczerpany
 * Telugu: అశక్తత

Adverb

 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Indonesian:


 * Macedonian: рамно
 * Polish: płasko
 * Swedish: ,


 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Indonesian: pipih
 * Telugu: మొద్దుబారిన


 * Danish: jævnt
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:


 * Macedonian: рамно
 * Swedish: jämnt, blankt
 * Telugu: పెరగని


 * Danish:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:, ,


 * Swedish:, ,
 * Telugu: పూర్తిగా

Noun

 * Catalan: bemoll
 * Croatian: snizilica
 * Dutch:, mol
 * Finnish:


 * French:
 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:


 * Catalan: punxada, avaria
 * Dutch: lekke band, platte band
 * Finnish: puhjennut rengas, tyhjä rengas
 * German: ,
 * Italian: not used as a noun in this context


 * Persian: تایر پنچر
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish: punktering,


 * Danish: flade
 * Italian: scarpe senza tacco,


 * Polish: na płaskim obcasie
 * Swedish: lågklackad (sko)


 * : kuliso
 * : (2): quartìno

Anagrams

 * falt

Noun

 * 1) flat, apartment

Verb




Noun

 * 1) saucer
 * 2) flat, apartment

Adjective

 * 1) flat
 * The sun was reflected in the flat surface of the mirror.
 * 1) spineless, being a doormat, abstaining from defending one's convictions

Synonyms

 * platt
 * eftergiven, mjäkig