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parallel to the ground; "a flat roof" horizontal with flat sails; "sail flat against the wind" below the proper pitch; "she sang flat last night" against a flat surface; "he lay flat on his back" at full length; "he fell flat on his face" wholly or completely; "He is flat broke" having lost effervescence; "flat beer"; "a flat cola" noneffervescent not increasing as the amount taxed increases regressive lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone; "B flat" not made with leavening; "most flat breads are made from unleavened dough" unleavened stretched out and lying at full length along the ground; "found himself lying flat on the floor" unerect without pleats unfolded lacking contrast or shading between tones underdeveloped scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting a deflated pneumatic tire having no depth or thickness planar (of a tire) completely or partially deflated deflated not reflecting light; not glossy; "flat wall paint"; "a photograph with a matte finish" dull lacking variety in shading; "a flat unshaded painting" unshaded a shallow box in which seedlings are started a level tract of land having a horizontal surface in which no part is higher or lower than another; "a flat desk"; "acres of level farmland"; "a plane surface" even a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; "a bland little drama"; "a flat joke" unstimulating 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" flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes) thin lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea" tasteless a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house 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" multidimensional freight car without permanent sides or roof not modified or restricted by reservations; "a categorical denial"; "a flat refusal" unqualified |
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