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Flatness [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Having a flat nose.

Flatness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Evenness of surface; levelness; equality of surface.

2. Want of relief or prominence; as the flatness of a figure in sculpture.

3. Deadness; vapidness; insipidity; as the flatness of cider or beer.

4. Dejection of fortune; low state.

5. The flatness of my misery.

6. Dejection of mind; a low state of the spirits; depression; want of life.

7. Dullness; want of point; insipidity; frigidity.

8. Some of Homer's translators have swelled into fustian, and others sunk into flatness

9. Gravity of sound, as opposed to sharpness, acuteness or shrillness.

10. Flatness of sound - joined with a harshness.

Flatness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The quality or state of being flat.

2. Eveness of surface; want of relief or prominence; the state of being plane or level.

3. Want of vivacity or spirit; prostration; dejection; depression.

4. Want of variety or flavor; dullness; insipidity.

5. Depression of tone; the state of being below the true pitch; -- opposed to sharpness or acuteness.

Horizontality Roget’s Thesaurus §213

N. horizontality, flatness, level, # plane, stratum, dead level, dead flat, level plane, recumbency, lying down, reclination, decumbence, decumbency, discumbency|, proneness, accubation, supination, resupination, prostration, azimuth, plain, floor, platform, bowling green, cricket ground, croquet ground, croquet lawn, billiard table, terrace, estrade, esplanade, parterre, table land, plateau, ledge, butte, mesa (plain) 344, level, spirit level

V. be horizontal, lie, recline, couch, lie down, lie flat, lie prostrate, sprawl, loll, sit down, render horizontal, lay down, lay out, level, flatten, prostrate, knock down, floor, fell

Adj. horizontal, level, even, plane, flat, flat as a billiard table, flat as a bowling green, alluvial, calm, calm as a mill pond, smooth, smooth as glass, recumbent, decumbent, procumbent, accumbent, lying, prone, supine, couchant, jacent, prostrate, recubant

Adv. horizontally, on one's back, on all fours, on its beam ends

Flatness Roget’s Thesaurus §251

N. flatness, smoothness, # plane, level, plate, platter, table, tablet, slab

V. render flat, flatten, level

Adj. flat, plane, even, flush, scutiform, discoid, level, flat as a pancake, flat as a fluke, flat as a flounder, flat as a board, flat as my hand

Dullness Roget’s Thesaurus §843

N. dullness, heaviness, flatness, infestivity #, stupidity, want of originality, dearth of ideas, prose, matter of fact, heavy book, conte a dormir debout, platitude

V. be dull, prose, take au serieux, be caught napping, render dull, damp, depress, throw cold water on, lay a wet blanket on, fall flat upon the ear, no joke, serious matter (importance) 642

Adj. dull, dull as ditch water, unentertaining, uninteresting, flat, dry as dust, unfunny, unlively, logy, unimaginative, insulse, dry as dust, prosy, prosing, prosaic, matter of fact, commonplace, pedestrian, pointless, "weary stale flat and unprofitable", stupid, slow, flat, insipid, vapid, humdrum, monotonous, melancholic, stolid, plodding, boring, tiresome, tedious

Phr. davus sum non aedipus, deadly dull and boring, ddb