flattest
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- Having no variations in height.
Example: "The land around here is flat."
- (voice) Without variations in pitch.
- Having small or invisible breasts and/or buttocks.
Example: "That girl is completely flat on both sides."
- (note) Lowered by one semitone.
- Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be.
Example: "Your A string is too flat."
- (of a tire or other inflated object) Deflated, especially because of a puncture.
- Uninteresting.
Example: "The party was a bit flat."
- (of a carbonated drink) With all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the drink no longer fizzes or contains any bubbles.
- Lacking acidity without being sweet.
- (of a battery) Unable to emit power; dead.
- (of a throw) Without spin; spinless.
- Lacking liveliness or action; depressed; dull and boring.
Example: "The dialogue in your screenplay is flat -- you need to make it more exciting."
- Absolute; downright; peremptory.
Example: "His claim was in flat contradiction to experimental results."
- (of a consonant) sonant; vocal, as distinguished from a sharp (non-sonant) consonant
- (grammar) Not having an inflectional ending or sign, such as a noun used as an adjective, or an adjective as an adverb, without the addition of a formative suffix; or an infinitive without the sign "to".
Example: "Many flat adverbs, as in 'run fast', 'buy cheap', etc. are from Old English."
- (of a golf club) Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft.
- (of certain fruits) Flattening at the ends.
- (authorship, especially of a character) Lacking in depth, substance, or believability; underdeveloped; one-dimensional.
Example: "The author added a chapter to flesh out the books' flatter characters."
- Fixed; unvarying.
Example: "a flat fare on public transport"
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