Definition of flat

"flat" in the noun sense

1. flat

a level tract of land

"the salt flats of Utah"

2. flat

a shallow box in which seedlings are started

3. flat

a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named

4. flatcar, flatbed, flat

freight car without permanent sides or roof

5. flat, flat tire

a deflated pneumatic tire

6. flat

scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas part of a stage setting

7. apartment, flat

a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house

"flat" in the adjective sense

1. 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"

2. flat

having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness

"flat computer monitors"

3. categoric, categorical, flat, unconditional

not modified or restricted by reservations

"a categorical denial"

"a flat refusal"

4. flat, prostrate

stretched out and lying at full length along the ground

"found himself lying flat on the floor"

5. flat

lacking contrast or shading between tones

6. flat

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

"B flat"

7. compressed, flat

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

8. 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"

9. bland, flat

lacking stimulating characteristics uninteresting

"a bland little drama"

"a flat joke"

10. flat

having lost effervescence

"flat beer"

"a flat cola"

11. flat, monotone, monotonic, monotonous

sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch

"the owl's faint monotonous hooting"

12. flat

horizontally level

"a flat roof"

13. 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"

14. flat, mat, matt, matte, matted

not reflecting light not glossy

"flat wall paint"

"a photograph with a matte finish"

15. flat

commercially inactive

"flat sales for the month"

"prices remained flat"

"a flat market"

"flat" in the adverb sense

1. flat

with flat sails

"sail flat against the wind"

2. 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"

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Quotations for flat

How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world! [ William Shakespeare ]

The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie. [ Pope ]

The scholars of Ireland seem not to have the least conception of style, but run on in a flat phraseology, often mingled with barbarous terms. [ Swift ]

The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily abhors. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular, - that slides along like an eel and never rises to what one can call an inequality. [ Shenstone ]

An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat countries with spire-steeples, which, as they cannot be referred to any other object, point as with silent finger to the sky and stars. [ Coleridge ]

flat in Scrabble®

The word flat is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters flat:

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flat in Words With Friends™

The word flat is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters flat:

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Words within the letters of flat

2 letter words in flat (4 words)

3 letter words in flat (2 words)

4 letter words in flat (1 word)

flat + 1 blank (7 words)

Words containing the sequence flat

Words with flat in them (158 words)

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Words that end with flat (3 words)

Word Growth involving flat

Shorter words in flat

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Longer words containing flat

aflatoxicosis

aflatoxin aflatoxins

conflate conflated

conflate conflates

conflating

conflation conflations

deflatable

deflate deflated nondeflated

deflate deflater deflaters

deflate deflates

deflating

deflation antideflation

deflation deflationary nondeflationary

deflation deflationism

deflation deflationist deflationists

deflation deflations nondeflations

deflation nondeflation nondeflationary

deflation nondeflation nondeflations

deflator deflators

exsufflator exsufflators

flatbed flatbeds

flatbread flatbreads

flatfeet

flatfish flatfishes

flatfoot flatfooted

flatiron flatirons

flatkeeper flatkeepers

flatland flatlands

flatline flatlined

flatline flatliner flatliners

flatline flatlines

flatlining

flatly

flatmate flatmates

flatness

flatout

flats flatscreen flatscreens

flats mudflats

flatted

flatten flattened

flatten flattener flatteners

flatten flattening

flatten flattens

flatter flattered selfflattered

flatter flatterer flatterers selfflatterers

flatter flatterer selfflatterer selfflatterers

flatter flattering flatteringly unflatteringly

flatter flattering selfflattering

flatter flattering unflattering unflatteringly

flatter flatters

flatter flattery selfflattery

flatter selfflatter selfflattered

flatter selfflatter selfflatterer selfflatterers

flatter selfflatter selfflattering

flatter selfflatter selfflattery

flattest

flattish

flattop flattops

flatulence

flatulency

flatulent antiflatulent antiflatulents

flatulent flatulently

flatulent nonflatulent

flatware flatwares

flatwash flatwashed

flatwash flatwashes

flatwash flatwashing

flatway flatways

flatwise

flatwork flatworks

flatworm flatworms

inflatable inflatables

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inflate hyperinflate hyperinflated

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inflate inflated inflatedly

inflate inflated inflatedness

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inflation counterinflation counterinflationary

inflation deinflation deinflationary

inflation deinflation deinflations

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inflation hyperinflation hyperinflationary

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inflation inflationism inflationisms

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inflation overinflation overinflations

inflation reinflation reinflationary

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inflator inflators selfinflators

inflator selfinflator selfinflators

insufflator insufflators

mudflat mudflats

nonflat nonflatulent

paralleloflatitude

reflate reflated

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reflating

reflation reflationary

reflation reflations

stagflation

sufflate exsufflate exsufflated

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