Meaning & Definition of Flat in English

1. A level tract of land

• "The salt flats of utah"

2. A shallow box in which seedlings are started

3. A musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named

4. Freight car without permanent sides or roof

5. A deflated pneumatic tire

6. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas

• Part of a stage setting

7. A suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house

1. 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"

2. Having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness

• "Flat computer monitors"

3. Not modified or restricted by reservations

• "A categorical denial"

• "A flat refusal"

4. Stretched out and lying at full length along the ground

• "Found himself lying flat on the floor"

5. Lacking contrast or shading between tones

6. (of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone

• "B flat"

7. Flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)

8. Lacking taste or flavor or tang

• "A bland diet"

• "Insipid hospital food"

• "Flavorless supermarket tomatoes"

• "Vapid beer"

• "Vapid tea"

9. Lacking stimulating characteristics

• Uninteresting

• "A bland little drama"

• "A flat joke"

10. Having lost effervescence

• "Flat beer"

• "A flat cola"

11. Sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch

• "The owl's faint monotonous hooting"

12. Horizontally level

• "A flat roof"

13. 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"

14. Not reflecting light

• Not glossy

• "Flat wall paint"

• "A photograph with a matte finish"

15. Commercially inactive

• "Flat sales for the month"

• "Prices remained flat"

• "A flat market"

1. With flat sails

• "Sail flat against the wind"

2. 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"