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FLAT, a. L. latus, broad Gr. Eng. blade.

1. Having an even surface, without risings or indentures, hills or valleys as flat land.

2. Horizontal level without inclination as a flat roof or with a moderate inclination or slope for we often apply the word to the roof of a house that is not steep, though inclined.

3. Prostrate lying the whole length on the ground. He fell or lay flat on the ground.

4. Not elevated or erect fallen.

Cease t'admire, and beauty's plumes fall flat.

5. Level with the ground totally fallen.

What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat.

6. In painting, wanting relief or prominence of the figures.

7. Tasteless stale vapid insipid dead as fruit flat to the taste.

8. Dull unanimated frigid without point or spirit applied to discourses and compositions. The sermon was very flat.

9. Depressed spiritless dejected.

I feel - my hopes all flat.

10. Unpleasing not affording gratification.

How flat and insipid are all the pleasures of this life!

11. Peremptory absolute positive downright. He gave the petitioner a flat denial.

Thus repulsed, our final hope is flat despair.

12. Not sharp or shrill not acute as a flat sound.

13. Low, as the prices of goods or dull, as sales.

FLAT, n.

1. A level or extended plain. In America, it is applied particularly to low ground or meadow that is level, but it denotes any land of even surface and of some extent.

2. A level ground lying at a small depth under the surface of water a shoal a shallow a strand a sand bank under water.

3. The broad side of a blade.

4. Depression of thought or language.

5. A surface without relief or prominences.

6. In music, a mark of depression in sound. A flat denotes a fall or depression of half a tone.

7. A boat, broad and flat-bottomed. A flat-bottomed boat is constructed for conveying passengers or troops, horses, carriages and baggage.

FLAT,

1. To level to depress to lay smooth or even to make broad and smooth to flatten.

2. To make vapid or tasteless.

3. To make dull or unanimated.

FLAT,

1. To grow flat to fall to an even surface.

2. To become insipid, or dull and unanimated.