flat
/ˈflæt/ adjective B1- Having no variations in height. · The land around here is flat.
- In a horizontal line or plane; not sloping. · a flat roof
- Smooth; having no protrusions, indentations or other surface irregularities, or relatively so. · The surface of the mirror must be completely flat.· The carpet isn't properly flat in that corner.
- Having small or invisible breasts and/or buttocks. · Near-synonym: flat-chested· That girl is completely flat on both sides.
- Without variation in level, quantity, value, tone etc. · The exchange rate has been flat for several weeks.
- At a consistently depressed level; consistently lacklustre. · Sales have been flat all year, and we've barely broken even.
- Of fees, fares etc., fixed; unvarying. · a flat fee· flat rates
- Without variations in pitch. · He delivered the speech in a flat tone.
Comparative flatter · Superlative flattest
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Not a tree nor a house broke the broad sweep of flat country that reached to the edge of the sky in all directions.
Caulfield Gardens was one of those lines of flat-faced pillared, and porticoed houses which are so prominent a product of the middle Victorian epoch in the West End of London.
A FOX invited a Crane to supper and provided nothing for his entertainment but some soup made of pulse, which was poured out into a broad flat stone dish.
I know whom I may bully and whom I must flatter; and I thus prolong my life to a good old age.”
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