FLATTENED Synonyms: 153 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in rounded

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verb

past tense of flatten

as in smoothed

to make free from breaks, curves, or bumps flattened out the wrinkled paper before attempting to trace the pattern

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as in whipped

to defeat by a large margin if you don't understand the rules, you're going to get flattened when you try to play

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Adjective

Quickly pinch butter into flour mixture to create flattened pieces. — Carla Hall, Southern Living, 19 Nov. 2025 The company’s smaller sized safes, which begin at $1,350 per year and are the size of a semi-flattened shoebox, are all currently occupied. — Kati Chitrakorn, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2025 This garden party designer dollset comes with a poseable Barbie doll that stands on a base, a pre-flattened Play-Doh sheet that looks like fabric with fun designs and three extra cans of colorful Play-Doh for endless outfits. — Nora Colomer May Earn A Commission If You Buy Through Our Referral Links. This Content Was Created By A Team That Works Independently From The Fox Newsroom., FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2024

Verb

New financial figures from Anthropic this week also suggest its growth may have flattened. — Alyson Shontell, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026 That flattened front-end design is lifted loosely from the GT1 Le Mans racer, while the back half has tinges of the 959. — Caleb Jacobs, The Drive, 15 Oct. 2026 The brush was flattened and rivulets of water ran back toward the sound, which was now miraculously some 100 yards away down a sloping bank. — Gerald R. Hunter, Outdoor Life, 15 Oct. 2026 The storm flattened a boathouse in Destin and ripped away part of the facade of a high-rise in Panama City Beach. — Emilie Megnien, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2026 Fruits of the plant are flattened pods that are green and soft when young but papery, dry, and brown when mature. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Oct. 2026 Maybe that’s the point — the film seeks to interrogate Mark’s narcissism — but every interaction feels like it’s been flattened into a series of predictable accusations instead of something that might provoke surprise or reflection. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2026 Raed Khozeiq's coastal neighborhood in Tel al-Hawa was largely flattened. — Frank Andrews, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026 Even the actors’ bodies exhibit the bland greige produced by the high dynamic range of digital cameras and are flattened by the inconsistent lighting that comes from overuse of green screens. — Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for flattened

Adjective

Custom hooks, two-tone rounded laces and a co-branded metallic buckle secure the upper of the fresh shoe style.

— Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 12 Oct. 2026
Abxylute The controller bodies both have a rounded rectangular shape.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of rounded

Verb

After learning that Manchester whipped Maggie with a cat-o’-nine-tails, Lizzie agrees to help the Borden family’s maid kill her.

— Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2026
That sort of whipped, inswinging ball from Slater that caused so much havoc is hugely familiar to avid Premier League watchers.

— Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of whipped

Adjective

The cast iron hand held press at the flat top grill has an accumulation of encrusted grease.

— NWA Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026
At the denouement, Kember is completely alone, his flat, narcotized baritone dripping onto the faded guitar notes like melted mercury.

— Gabriel Szatan, Pitchfork, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of flat

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In an interview with Inside Edition on Tuesday, store owner Adam Rubin said that his store has been review-bombed since Clarkson took to social media and named the store, and employees and surrounding businesses have been harassed.

— Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 14 Oct. 2026
The Houthis bombed the corporate HQ of Saudi Aramco in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday, officials said.

— Jim Edwards, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of bombed

Adjective

The multi-level hillside property is accessible via two separate street entrances, one in the front and the other by the rear two-car garage.

— Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 14 Oct. 2026
With multiple functions, the shafts drew fresh air down into the multi-level complexes, and also continued below the lowest floor, reaching groundwater and serving as deep wells.

— Maya Chawla, Architectural Digest, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of level

Verb

First, Protas buried a cross-zone feed from Alex Ovechkin to give Washington the 2-1 lead.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026
The grave contained no grave goods — objects buried alongside the dead — but archaeologists were able to estimate its age based on the skeleton's crouched position and the grave's relationship to the nearby settlement and one of its houses.

— Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of buried

Adjective

Court challenges meant this process wasn't always smooth, but the results speak from themselves.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 13 Oct. 2026
If Waldron, who currently serves as Goldman president and chief operating officer, takes over as CEO, Solomon would likely remain as executive chairman for a period of time, an arrangement designed to engineer a smooth handoff.

— Hugh Son,Laya Neelakandan,Leslie Picker,Ritika Shah, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2026

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