Evenness of surface; levelness; equality of surface.

Want of relief or prominence; as the flatness of a figure in sculpture.

Deadness; vapidness; insipidity; as the flatness of cider or beer.

Dejection of fortune; low state. The flatness of my misery.

Dejection of mind; a low state of the spirits; depression; want of life.

Dullness; want of point; insipidity; frigidity. Some of Homer’s translators have swelled into fustian, and others sunk into flatness.

Gravity of sound, as opposed to sharpness, acuteness or shrillness. Flatness of sound - joined with a harshness.