Antonyms for flatness


Grammar : Noun
Spell : flat
Phonetic Transcription : flæt


Definition of flatness

Origin :
  • mid-15c., from flat (adj.) + -ness.
  • noun prostration
  • noun dullness
Example sentences :
  • Because your own is high enough, and flatness, you may be sure, will go best with height.
  • Extract from : « Cyropaedia » by Xenophon
  • Beatrix had always been distressed by the flatness of her one-syllabled name.
  • Extract from : « The Dominant Strain » by Anna Chapin Ray
  • He must have the freshness of Norfolk; nay, even the flatness of Norfolk.
  • Extract from : « A Miscellany of Men » by G. K. Chesterton
  • They have a bold beauty, very pleasant after the flatness of the plain.
  • Extract from : « William Shakespeare » by John Masefield
  • That flatness had made her sick, and so did this, in another way.
  • Extract from : « The Real Thing and Other Tales » by Henry James
  • The flatness of surface is essential to the problem of bas-relief.
  • Extract from : « The Crown of Wild Olive » by John Ruskin
  • In different males this part is of various length and flatness.
  • Extract from : « New observations on the natural history of bees » by Francis Huber
  • This difference is not owing to a difference in their sharpness or flatness.
  • Extract from : « A Handbook of the English Language » by Robert Gordon Latham
  • As to the low bed, it might have been a board, to judge by its flatness.
  • Extract from : « Johnny Ludlow. First Series » by Mrs. Henry Wood
  • It is this alone that saves much of his humorous work from flatness.
  • Extract from : « A History of American Literature Since 1870 » by Fred Lewis Pattee

Synonyms for flatness

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