5. Vapid, tasteless, insipid, stale, dead, flashy, mawkish. 6. Peremptory, absolute, positive, downright. 7. (Mus.) Below true pitch. 8. (Mus.) Lower by a semitone, a semitone lower. Flat, n.
1. Shoal, shallow, strand, bar, sand bank. 2. Plain, lowland, level piece of country, champaign. 3. (Colloq.) Simpleton, ninny. See dunce. 4. Floor, story, apartment. Flat-iron, n. Sad-iron, smoothing iron.
Flatten, v. a. Make flat (in all the senses of the adjective; which see).
Flatten, v. a.
1. Compliment, gratify by praise. 2. Cajole, wheedle, blandish, humor, coax, court, coddle, pay court to, fawn upon, curry favor with, try to
win by adulation, make much of. 3. Encourage by plausible representations, inspire with false hopes. Flatterer, n. Sycophant, fawner, parasite, wheedler, toady, flunky, spaniel, lick-spittle, pick-thank, toad-
eater.
Flattery, n.
1. Pretended compliment, insincere commendation, false praise. 2. Obsequiousness, sycophancy, servility, cajolery, fawning, adulation, blandishment, blarney. Flatulence, Flatulency, n. Windiness (in the bowels).
Flatulent, a. Windy.
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