flattish
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- adjective
- /ˈflætɪʃ/
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plano
- The path was easy to walk on because it was mostly flattish, allowing everyone to keep their balance.
Examples
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It's just like a flattish foundation brush, a squished, tapered, kind of loose, kind of dense foundation brush.
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Her gaze drops to her naked body, so familiar: the thin, freckled limbs and flattish stomach.
Fiction book (2000) -
Dark eyes and skin, flattish nose, wide jaw.
Fiction book (1996) -
Mama informed me that the flattish ones were sweeter.
Fiction book (2002) -
Some large, flattish cobbles lying on the floor may have served as anvils.
Academic text (2008) -
A sprawl of prefabs rambling over a flattish area a few meters above the sea, with low heath-covered hills at its back.
Fiction book (2001) -
I walked impatiently beside Mama as she filled her basket with sugar, butter, cornmeal, and then, in the vegetable aisle, big white onions that were flattish rather than round.
Fiction book (2002) -
They look like the Hawaiian volcanoes, which are shield volcanoes caused by a thin, runny lava building a very broad, flattish, gently domed mountain.
Academic text (1991) -
After studying the layout, the architect suggested a flattish design for the new public park to make it accessible for all visitors.
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The field was flattish, making it ideal for playing soccer without any hills to trip over.
Synonyms
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Level and even without parts higher or lower
Antonyms
How Flat
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Flattish is just flat with the ending -ish meaning 'somewhat' or 'a little'. So something flattish is not completely flat but a little 'flat'—low or without much curve or height.