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flashy adj. 1 flash, gaudy, flamboyant, glaring, fulgurous, showy,
ostentatious, loud, garish, vulgar, cheap, meretricious,
pretentious, tawdry, tasteless, Colloq tacky, Slang jazzy, US
glitzy: He was attracted by her flashy appearance. 2
superficial, cosmetic, skin-deep, surface, shallow, glib, slick,
facile, insubstantial, thin: The reviewer called it a flashy
interpretation of the Bard.
flat adj. 1 level, horizontal, even, smooth, plane, unbroken,
uninterrupted: I looked out over the flat surface of the frozen
bay. 2 prostrate, prone, supine, lying (down), stretched out,
recumbent, outstretched, reclining, spread-eagle(d), spread out,
outspread: I lay flat on my back staring up at the sky. 3
collapsed, levelled, overthrown, laid low: The air raid had
left all the buildings completely flat. 4 downright, outright,
unqualified, unreserved, unconditional, absolute, categorical,
explicit, unconditional, definite, firm, positive, out-and-out,
unequivocal, peremptory, unambiguous, unmistakable, direct,
complete, total: The request for clemency was met with the
judge's flat refusal. 5 featureless, monotonous, dull, dead,
uninteresting, unexciting, vapid, bland, empty, two-dimensional,
insipid, boring, tiresome, lifeless, spiritless, lacklustre,
prosaic, stale, tired, dry, jejune: The critics wrote that she
turned in a very flat performance. 6 deflated, collapsed,
punctured, ruptured, blown out: We had a flat tyre on the way.
7 unchangeable, unchanging, invariable, unvaried, unvarying,
standard, fixed, unmodified, unmodifiable, Colloq US
cookie-cutter: They charge the same flat rate for children, the
elderly, and all between. 8 dead, insipid, stale, tasteless,
flavourless, unpalatable; decarbonated, non-effervescent: My
beer has gone flat. 9 exact, precise: It's a flat ten minutes
from here to the railway station. 10 definite, certain, sure,
irrevocable: I said I'm not going, and that's flat. 11 dull,
slow, sluggish, inactive, depressed: Business has been a bit
flat since Christmas. 12 dull, mat or matt or matte, unshiny,
non-gloss(y), non-reflective, non-glare, unpolished: The table
looks better with a flat finish. 13 lacking perspective,
two-dimensional, lifeless, unrealistic: Some of his paintings
seem pretty flat to me.
--n. 14 Often, flats. a US low shoes, loafers, sandals, Colloq
flatties: Cynthia said that wearing flats makes her feet hurt.