| Main Entry: | flatness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prostration |
Synonyms: |
dejection, depression, exhaustion, fatigue, flat, languor, sluggishness, tiredness, vapidity, vapidness, weariness |
| Main Entry: | flatness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dullness |
Synonyms: |
blandness, colorlessness, drabness, dreariness, dryness, flavorlessness, insipidity, insipidness, jejuneness, lifelessness, stodginess, vapidity, vapidness |
| Concept: | Flatness. |
| Category: | 3. Superficial form |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
flatness; smoothness., plane; level; plate, platter, table, tablet, slab.
-verbs
render flat, flatten; level.
-adjectives
flat, plane, even, flush, scutiform, discoid; level (horizontal); flat as a pancake, flat as a fluke, flat as a flounder, flat as a board, flat as my hand.
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| Main Entry: | boredom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disinterest; weariness |
Synonyms: |
apathy, detachment, disgust, distaste, doldrums, dullness, ennui, fatigue, flatness, incuriosity, indifference, irksomeness, jadedness, lack of interest, lassitude, lethargy, listlessness, monotony, pococurantism, sameness, taedium vitae, tediousness, tedium, tiresomeness, unconcern, world-weariness, yawn |
Antonyms: |
excitement, interest, pleasure |
| Main Entry: | monotony |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boredom; sameness |
Synonyms: |
colorlessness, continuance, continuity, dreariness, dryness, dullness, ennui, equability, evenness, flatness, humdrum*, identicalness, invariability, levelness, likeness, monotone, monotonousness, oneness, repetitiousness, repetitiveness, routine, same old thing, similarity, tediousness, tedium, tiresomeness, unchangeableness, uniformity, wearisomeness |
Antonyms: |
change, color, excitement, liveliness, variability, versatility |
| Main Entry: | platitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dull, overused saying |
Synonyms: |
banality, boiler plate, bromide, buzzword, chestnut, cliché, commonplace, corn, evenness, familiar tune, flatness, hackneyed saying, high camp, hokum, inanity, insipidity, monotony, motto, old chestnut, old story, potboiler, prosaicism, proverb, saw, shibboleth, stereotype, tag*, trite remark, triteness, triviality, truism, vapidity, verbiage |
Antonyms: |
coinage, nuance |
| Main Entry: | dullness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | quality of being boring |
Synonyms: |
aridity, boredom, commonplaceness, drabness, dreariness, dryness, familiarity, flatness, insipidity, insipidness, lifelessness, monotomy, routine, sameness, slowness, staleness, tediousness, tedium, uninterestingness, vapidity |
Antonyms: |
action, interest, liveliness |
| Main Entry: | meagerness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dullness |
Synonyms: |
boredom, flatness, monotony, sameness, tedium |
| Main Entry: | asepticism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dullness |
Synonyms: |
blandness, drabness, dreariness, flatness, flavorlessness, insipidity, insipidness, lifelessness, sterileness, sterility, vapidity, vapidness, weariness |
| Main Entry: | blandness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dullness |
Synonyms: |
boringness, colorlessness, drabness, dreariness, flatness, flavorlessness, innocuousness, insipidity, insipidness, jejuneness, lifelessness, pallidness, uninterestingness, vapidity, vapidness |