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Flatter

verb

(past & past part. flattered; pres. part. flattering)

1.

Praise somewhat dishonestly. Synonym: blandish.

Flat

adjective

(compar. flatter; superl. flattest)

1.

Having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another. Synonyms: level, plane. "Acres of level farmland" , "A plane surface" , "Skirts sewn with fine flat seams"

2.

Having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness.

3.

Not modified or restricted by reservations. Synonyms: categoric, categorical, unconditional. "A flat refusal"

4.

Stretched out and lying at full length along the ground. Synonym: prostrate.

5.

Lacking contrast or shading between tones.

6.

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

7.

Flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes). Synonym: compressed.

8.

Lacking taste or flavor or tang. Synonyms: bland, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid. "Insipid hospital food" , "Flavorless supermarket tomatoes" , "Vapid beer" , "Vapid tea"

9.

Lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting. Synonym: bland. "A flat joke"

10.

Having lost effervescence. "A flat cola"

11.

Sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch. Synonyms: monotone, monotonic, monotonous.

12.

Horizontally level.

13.

Lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth. Synonyms: 2-dimensional, two-dimensional. "A flat two-dimensional painting"

14.

Not reflecting light; not glossy. Synonyms: mat, matt, matte, matted. "A photograph with a matte finish"

15.

Commercially inactive. "Prices remained flat" , "A flat market"

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"Flatter" Quotes from Famous Books

... Iemon could flatter himself on the efficacy of the divine interposition. The public mind was quieted. Nothing more was heard of O'Iwa San. Only the daily summons, on one pretext or another, to the ward office troubled him. The yakunin also made a practice of taking in Tamiya en route to performance of their various ...

— The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari - Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) • James S. De Benneville

... Lotys suddenly; "Who speaks of them—who needs them? Rich friends expect you to toady to them; to lick the ground under their feet; to fawn and flatter and lie, and be anything but honest men! The rich are the vulgar of this world;—no one who has heart, or soul, or sense, would condescend to seek friendships among those whose only claim to precedence is the possession of a little more yellow ...

— Temporal Power • Marie Corelli

... masses. The leaf patterns (Nos. 6 and 7, p. 169[f093]) consist simply of the repetition and reversal of a single element. An emphatic effect is obtained by bringing the leaves out black upon a white ground (as in No. 6), while a flatter and softer effect is the result of throwing them upon a plane of half-tint expressed by horizontal lines, with a similar effect of relief to that which would be given by the warp, ...

— Line and Form (1900) • Walter Crane

... When he changed the trade-mark the Germans bought them as fast as he could supply them—not because they were short of food at that time, but through the magic of a name. To-day all that is changed. Norwegians no longer have to flatter the Germans, who are anxious to buy anything in the way of food. They flood Germany now with impunity with sardines whose merits are extolled in the hated English language, sardines which had originally been intended for Britain or ...

— The Land of Deepening Shadow - Germany-at-War • D. Thomas Curtin

... there is no need to fear aught by reason of any dream that is contrary thereto, or on that account to give up any just design; and as for crooked and sinister enterprises, however dreams may seem to favour them, and flatter the hopes of the dreamer with auspicious omens, none should trust them: rather should all give full credence to such as run counter thereto. But come we ...

— The Decameron, Volume I • Giovanni Boccaccio

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