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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

... the multitude and rule over it, must flatter it and do that which the multitude wants; he must give it that which it needs; he must first be its slave so that he may later become its master," said ...

— The Comedienne • Wladyslaw Reymont

... years; now, how has the baneful use of opium thrown a dark cloud over you and your prospects. I would not say anything needlessly harsh or unkind, but I must be faithful. It is the irresistible voice of conscience. Others may still flatter you, and hang upon your words, but I have another, though a less gracious duty to perform. I see a brother sinning a sin unto death, and shall I not warn him? I see him perhaps on the borders of eternity, ...

— Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey • Joseph Cottle

... had stolen upon him, and now that he could no longer pose as his own allconquering hero, his hand seems to have lost its cunning. His editorial articles, afterwards published under the appropriate title of Ephemera, grew thinner and flatter with the passing of the years; yet slight and superficial as the best of them are, they were the result of very hard writing. His manuscripts were a mass of erasures and interlineations, but his copy was so neatly prepared that even the erasures had a sort of 'wavy elegance' ...

— Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century • George Paston

... into what she wished him to believe were the very ultimate depths of the velvety eyes when she said: "You shouldn't flatter, Mr. Raymer. For one thing, you don't do it easily; and for another, ...

— The Price • Francis Lynde

... Exercises ... are used in the school.... Give him" (Harry) "my very kind regards, and say that his little bedroom here looks to me desolate until he comes; but I cannot flatter him that I have anything to fill up the emptiness of heart he will feel when he loses not only papa and mamma, but also his faithful coadjutor in study— Annie! Seriously, you will have to consider about his evening amusements, for it will not do to ...

— Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman • Giberne Sieveking

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