flat
flat is a 4-letter English word with 54 senses as adverb, noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- superlative. Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane.
- superlative. Lying at full length, or spread out, upon the ground; level with the ground or earth; prostrate; as, to lie flat on the ground; hence, fallen; laid low; ruined; destroyed.
- superlative. Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest.
- superlative. Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste.
- superlative. Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition.
- superlative. Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat.
- superlative. Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright.
- superlative. Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals, minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A flat.
- superlative. Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound.
- superlative. Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant.
- adverb. In a flat manner; directly; flatly.
- adverb. Without allowance for accrued interest.
- noun. A level surface, without elevation, relief, or prominences; an extended plain; specifically, in the United States, a level tract along the along the banks of a river; as, the Mohawk Flats.
- noun. A level tract lying at little depth below the surface of water, or alternately covered and left bare by the tide; a shoal; a shallow; a strand.
- noun. Something broad and flat in form
- noun. A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
- noun. A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
- noun. A car without a roof, the body of which is a platform without sides; a platform car.
- noun. A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are carried in processions.
- noun. The flat part, or side, of anything; as, the broad side of a blade, as distinguished from its edge.
- noun. A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself.
- noun. A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
- noun. A dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull.
- noun. A character [/] before a note, indicating a tone which is a half step or semitone lower.
- noun. A homaloid space or extension.
- transitive verb. To make flat; to flatten; to level.
- transitive verb. To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.
- transitive verb. To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
- intransitive verb. To become flat, or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
- intransitive verb. To fall form the pitch.
- noun. a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
- noun. scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting
- noun. a deflated pneumatic tire
- noun. a shallow box in which seedlings are started
- noun. freight car without permanent sides or roof
- noun. a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named
- noun. a level tract of land
"the salt flats of Utah"
- adjective. commercially inactive
"flat sales for the month"
"prices remained flat"
- adjective. not reflecting light; not glossy
"flat wall paint"
"a photograph with a matte finish"
- adjective. having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness
"flat computer monitors"
- adjective. 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"
- adjective. having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another
"a flat desk"
"acres of level farmland"
- adjective. lacking contrast or shading between tones
- adjective. horizontally level
"a flat roof"
- adjective. stretched out and lying at full length along the ground
"found himself lying flat on the floor"
- adjective. sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
"the owl's faint monotonous hooting"
- adjective. (of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone
"B flat"
- adjective. not modified or restricted by reservations
"a categorical denial"
"a flat refusal"
- adjective. having lost effervescence
"flat beer"
"a flat cola"
- adjective. lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting
"a bland little drama"
"a flat joke"
- adjective. lacking taste or flavor or tang
"a bland diet"
"insipid hospital food"
- adjective. flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
- adverb. in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly
"he didn't answer directly"
"told me straight out"
- adverb. with flat sails
"sail flat against the wind"
Synonyms
apartment, flatbed, flatcar, mat, matt, matte, matted, level, plane, prostrate, monotone, monotonic, monotonous, categoric, categorical, unconditional, bland, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid, compressed
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in flat:
Common word forms
flats, flatly, flatted, flatter, flatness, flattest, flatting
Words from these letters
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