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flashy adj. 1 flash, gaudy, flamboyant, glaring, fulgurous, showy,<br />

ostentatious, loud, garish, vulgar, cheap, meretricious,<br />

pretentious, tawdry, tasteless, Colloq tacky, Slang jazzy, US<br />

glitzy: He was attracted by her flashy appearance. 2<br />

superficial, cosmetic, skin-deep, surface, shallow, glib, slick,<br />

facile, insubstantial, thin: <strong>The</strong> reviewer called it a flashy<br />

interpretation <strong>of</strong> the Bard.<br />

flat adj. 1 level, horizontal, even, smooth, plane, unbroken,<br />

uninterrupted: I looked out over the flat surface <strong>of</strong> the frozen<br />

bay. 2 prostrate, prone, supine, lying (down), stretched out,<br />

recumbent, outstretched, reclining, spread-eagle(d), spread out,<br />

outspread: I lay flat on my back staring up at the sky. 3<br />

collapsed, levelled, overthrown, laid low: <strong>The</strong> air raid had<br />

left all the buildings completely flat. 4 downright, outright,<br />

unqualified, unreserved, unconditional, absolute, categorical,<br />

explicit, unconditional, definite, firm, positive, out-and-out,<br />

unequivocal, peremptory, unambiguous, unmistakable, direct,<br />

complete, total: <strong>The</strong> request for clemency was met with the<br />

judge's flat refusal. 5 featureless, monotonous, dull, dead,<br />

uninteresting, unexciting, vapid, bland, empty, two-dimensional,<br />

insipid, boring, tiresome, lifeless, spiritless, lacklustre,<br />

prosaic, stale, tired, dry, jejune: <strong>The</strong> critics wrote that she<br />

turned in a very flat performance. 6 deflated, collapsed,<br />

punctured, ruptured, blown out: We had a flat tyre on the way.<br />

7 unchangeable, unchanging, invariable, unvaried, unvarying,<br />

standard, fixed, unmodified, unmodifiable, Colloq US<br />

cookie-cutter: <strong>The</strong>y charge the same flat rate for children, the<br />

elderly, and all between. 8 dead, insipid, stale, tasteless,<br />

flavourless, unpalatable; decarbonated, non-effervescent: My<br />

beer has gone flat. 9 exact, precise: It's a flat ten minutes<br />

from here to the railway station. 10 definite, certain, sure,<br />

irrevocable: I said I'm not going, and that's flat. 11 dull,<br />

slow, sluggish, inactive, depressed: Business has been a bit<br />

flat since Christmas. 12 dull, mat or matt or matte, unshiny,<br />

non-gloss(y), non-reflective, non-glare, unpolished: <strong>The</strong> table<br />

looks better with a flat finish. 13 lacking perspective,<br />

two-dimensional, lifeless, unrealistic: Some <strong>of</strong> his paintings<br />

seem pretty flat to me.<br />

--n. 14 Often, flats. a US low shoes, loafers, sandals, Colloq<br />

flatties: Cynthia said that wearing flats makes her feet hurt.

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