Are you trying to hyphenate flats? Unfortunately it cannot be hyphenated because it only contains one syllable.
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Footwear (shoes or slippers) with no heel (or a very low heel) |
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Having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another A flat desk Acres of level farmland A plane surface Skirts sewn with fine flat seams |
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Having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness Flat computer monitors |
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Not modified or restricted by reservations A categorical denial A flat refusal |
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Stretched out and lying at full length along the ground Found himself lying flat on the floor |
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Lacking contrast or shading between tones |
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(of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone B flat |
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Flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes) |
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Lacking taste or flavor or tang A bland diet Insipid hospital food Flavorless supermarket tomatoes Vapid beer Vapid tea |
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Lacking stimulating characteristics Uninteresting A bland little drama A flat joke |
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Having lost effervescence Flat beer A flat cola |
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Sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch The owl's faint monotonous hooting |
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Horizontally level A flat roof |
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Lacking the expected range or depth Not designed to give an illusion or depth A film with two-dimensional characters A flat two-dimensional painting |
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Not reflecting light Not glossy Flat wall paint A photograph with a matte finish |
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Commercially inactive Flat sales for the month Prices remained flat A flat market |
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With flat sails Sail flat against the wind |
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In a forthright manner Candidly or frankly He didn't answer directly Told me straight out Came out flat for less work and more pay |