Overview of noun flat

The noun flat has 7 senses

• flat -- (a level tract of land; "the salt flats of Utah")


• flat -- (a shallow box in which seedlings are started)


• flat -- (a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named)


• flatcar, flatbed, flat -- (freight car without permanent sides or roof)


• flat, flat tire -- (a deflated pneumatic tire)


• flat -- (scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting)


• apartment, flat -- (a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house)

Overview of adj flat

The adj flat has 15 senses

• flat, level, plane -- (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")


• flat -- (having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness; "flat computer monitors")


• categoric, categorical, flat, unconditional -- (not modified or restricted by reservations; "a categorical denial"; "a flat refusal")


• flat, prostrate -- (stretched out and lying at full length along the ground; "found himself lying flat on the floor")


• flat -- (lacking contrast or shading between tones)


• flat -- ((of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone; "B flat")


• compressed, flat -- (flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes))


• bland, flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid -- (lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea")


• bland, flat -- (lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; "a bland little drama"; "a flat joke")


• flat -- (having lost effervescence; "flat beer"; "a flat cola")


• flat, monotone, monotonic, monotonous -- (sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; "the owl's faint monotonous hooting")


• flat -- (horizontally level; "a flat roof")


• two-dimensional, 2-dimensional, 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")


• flat, mat, matt, matte, matted -- (not reflecting light; not glossy; "flat wall paint"; "a photograph with a matte finish")


• flat -- (commercially inactive; "flat sales for the month"; "prices remained flat"; "a flat market")

Overview of adv flat

The adv flat has 2 senses

• flat -- (with flat sails; "sail flat against the wind")


• directly, flat, straight -- (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")