Not sharp, round or high-heeled
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adjective
- Lying at full length or spread out upon the ground prostrate
"The soldiers were lying flat on the ground."
- Utterly ruined or destroyed
"buildings flat from the blast"
- Resting with a surface against something
"Push the chairs flat against the wall."
- Having a continuous horizontal surface
"the flat landscape of the prairie"
- Being or characterized by a horizontal line or tracing without peaks or depressions
"a flat EEG"
- Having a relatively smooth or even surface
"a flat computer disk"
- Arranged or laid out so as to be level or even
"maps flat on the desk"
- Having the major surfaces essentially parallel and distinctly greater than the minor surfaces
"a flat piece of wood"
- Very low and broad
"flat shoes for work"
- Clearly unmistakable
"a flat denial"
- Lacking in animation, zest, or vigor dull
"He spoke in a flat, tired voice."
- Lacking flavor tasteless
"The stew is too flat."
- Lacking effervescence or sparkle
"flat ginger ale"
- Commercially inactive
- Lacking air deflated
- Dead, discharged
- Pronounced as in bad or bat
- Having a low trajectory see trajectory
"made a flat pass that was intercepted"
- Made so as to give little or no spin to the ball
- Not having an inflectional ending
"flat adverbs"
- Taut
- Uniform in hue or shade
"figures standing out against a background of flat wash"
- Having little or no illusion of depth
- Lacking contrast
- Lacking shadows or contours
- Free from gloss having a nonreflective finish
"a flat paint"
- Two-dimensional
"flat characters"
- Of, relating to, or used in competition on the flat
"a flat horse"
- Having a mass such that expansion halts only after infinite time and collapse never occurs
noun
- A level surface of land
- A stretch of land without obstacles
- A flat part or surface
"the flat of one's hand"
- A musical note or tone one half step lower than a specified note or tone
- A character ♭ on a line or space of the musical staff indicating a half step drop in pitch
- A shallow container for shipping produce
- A shallow box in which seedlings are started
- A flat piece of theatrical scenery
- A shoe or slipper having a flat heel or no heel
- An apartment on one floor
- A deflated tire
- The area to either side of an offensive football formation
adverb
- In a flat manner directly, positively
- In a complete manner absolutely
"flat broke"
- Below the proper musical pitch
- Without interest charge
verb
- Flatten
- To lower in pitch especially by a half step
- To sing or play below the true pitch
noun
- Any of an English breed of medium-sized sporting dogs that have a dense smooth black or liver-colored coat
noun
- A person who believes that the planet Earth is flat
adjective
- Affected with flatfoot
- Firm and well balanced on the feet
- Free from reservation forthright
"had an honest flat-footed way of saying a thing"
- Not ready unprepared
- Proceeding in a plodding or unimaginative way pedestrian
"flat-footed prose"
adverb
- In an open and determined manner flatly
- With the feet flat on a surface (such as the ground)
verb
- To fly low in an airplane in a reckless manner hedgehop
noun
- A device used for straightening hair by pressing and pulling sections between two heated metal or ceramic, flat, rectangular plates
- Iron
This clue was used on October 25, 2025.
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