Noun
flat -
scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting
scenery ,
scene the painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale; "they worked all night painting the scenery"
mise en scene ,
stage setting ,
setting arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted
wing flat ,
coulisse a timber member grooved to take a sliding panel
flat -
a level tract of land; "the salt flats of Utah"
champaign ,
plain ,
field a university town in east central Illinois adjoining Urbana
alluvial flat ,
alluvial plain a flat resulting from repeated deposits of alluvial material by running water
flat -
a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named
musical notation (music) notation used by musicians
flat -
a deflated pneumatic tire
flat tire
flat -
a shallow box in which seedlings are started
flat -
a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
apartment
living accommodations ,
housing ,
lodging structures collectively in which people are housed
apartment building ,
apartment house a building that is divided into apartments
bedsit ,
bedsitter ,
bedsitting room a furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations (and some plumbing)
cold-water flat an apartment without modern conveniences
duplex apartment ,
duplex an apartment having rooms on two floors that are connected by a staircase
efficiency apartment a furnished apartment with a kitchenette and bathroom
flatlet a tiny flat
kitchenette small kitchen
maisonette ,
maisonnette a small house
penthouse an apartment located on the top floors of a building
railroad flat an apartment whose rooms are all in a line with doors between them
studio apartment ,
studio an apartment with a living space and a bathroom and a small kitchen
rooms ,
suite apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel)
flat -
freight car without permanent sides or roof
flatcar ,
flatbed
Adjective
flat -
sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; "the owl's faint monotonous hooting"
monotone ,
monotonic ,
monotonous
unmodulated characterized by lack of variation in pitch, tone, or volume; "he lectured in an unmodulated voice edged with hysteria"
flat -
not reflecting light; not glossy; "flat wall paint" ; "a photograph with a matte finish"
mat ,
matt ,
matte ,
matted
dull (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)" ; "a sluggish market"
flat -
having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another; "a flat desk" ; "acres of level farmland" ; "a plane surface" ; "skirts sewn with fine flat seams"
level ,
plane
even equal in degree or extent or amount; or equally matched or balanced; "even amounts of butter and sugar" ; "on even terms" ; "it was a fifty-fifty (or even) split" ; "had a fifty-fifty (or even) chance" ; "an even fight"
flat -
lacking contrast or shading between tones
picture taking ,
photography the occupation of taking and printing photographs or making movies
flat -
(of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone; "B flat"
natural being talented through inherited qualities; "a natural leader" ; "a born musician" ; "an innate talent"
music musical activity (singing or whistling etc.); "his music was his central interest"
flat -
having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness; "flat computer monitors"
planar ,
two-dimensional involving two dimensions
flat -
commercially inactive; "flat sales for the month" ; "prices remained flat" ; "a flat market"
flat -
horizontally level; "a flat roof"
flat -
stretched out and lying at full length along the ground; "found himself lying flat on the floor"
prostrate
flat -
having lost effervescence; "flat beer" ; "a flat cola"
flat -
lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet" ; "insipid hospital food" ; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes" ; "vapid beer" ; "vapid tea"
bland ,
flavorless ,
flavourless ,
insipid ,
savorless ,
savourless ,
vapid
tasteless lacking aesthetic or social taste
flat -
flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
compressed
thin lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin" ; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look" -Shakespeare
biological science ,
biology the science that studies living organisms
flat -
lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; "a bland little drama" ; "a flat joke"
bland
unstimulating ,
unexciting not stimulating
flat -
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"
two-dimensional ,
2-dimensional
multidimensional having or involving or marked by several dimensions or aspects; "multidimensional problems" ; "a multidimensional proposition" ; "a multidimensional personality"
flat -
not modified or restricted by reservations; "a categorical denial" ; "a flat refusal"
categoric ,
categorical ,
unconditional
Adverb
flat -
with flat sails; "sail flat against the wind"
flat -
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"
directly ,
straight
indirectly not in a forthright manner; "he answered very indirectly"
