flat
flat is a valid 4-letter word worth 7 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
What does flat mean?
A deflated pneumatic tire.
A level tract of land.
“the salt flats of Utah”
A musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named.
A shallow box in which seedlings are started.
Freight car without permanent sides or roof.
Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting.
A suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house.
Having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another.
“a flat desk”
“skirts sewn with fine flat seams”
Sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch.
Stretched out and lying at full length along the ground.
“found himself lying flat on the floor”
Flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes).
Commercially inactive.
“flat sales for the month”
“prices remained flat”
Having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness.
“flat computer monitors”
Having lost effervescence.
“flat beer”
“a flat cola”
Horizontally level.
“a flat roof”
Lacking contrast or shading between tones.
(of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone.
“B flat”
Lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth.
“a flat two-dimensional painting”
Not modified or restricted by reservations.
“a flat refusal”
Not reflecting light; not glossy.
“flat wall paint”
Lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting.
“a flat joke”
Lacking taste or flavor or tang.
In a forthright manner; candidly or frankly.
“came out flat for less work and more pay”