flat-out
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: absolutely, downright
—usually used as an intensive is just flat-out confusing
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Synonyms for flat-out
Synonyms: Adjective
absolute, all-out, arrant, blank, blooming [chiefly British], bodacious [Southern & Midland], categorical (also categoric), clean, complete, consummate, cotton-picking, crashing, damn, damned, dead, deadly, definite, downright, dreadful, fair, flat, out-and-out, outright, perfect, plumb, profound, pure, rank, regular, sheer, simple, stark, stone, straight-out, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unadulterated, unalloyed, unconditional, unmitigated, unqualified, utter, very
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Examples of flat-out in a Sentence
Adverb
I told him flat out that I have no intention of marrying him. We asked for more time but they refused us flat out. The car does 180 mph flat out.
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Only when Kelly flat out refused did Dearborn relent. — Jason Zengerle, New York Times, "How America Got to ‘Zero Tolerance’ on Immigration: The Inside Story," 16 July 2019 More: Man at center of FBI case: Tom Izzo 'flat out' wasn't paying for a recruit Bowen enrolled at South Carolina after being suspended by Louisville, but NCAA declined to grant him eligibility. — Vince Ellis, Detroit Free Press, "How Saginaw's Brian Bowen found refuge from shoe scandal Down Under," 12 June 2019 Absolutely 1,000% that is a flat out total fabrication and lie. — chicagotribune.com, "Huge cache of newly unsealed records detail how Jeffrey Epstein and his madam lured girls into sexual servitude," 10 Aug. 2019 On Wall Street, Facebook faced the music and Tesla flat out bombed. — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, "Can Anyone Fix the DMV?—Data Sheet," 25 July 2019 Twitter has long taken a much harsher approach to content moderation for the average user, whose tweets are flat out removed—albeit inconsistently—if suspected of violating the platform’s guidelines. — Paris Martineau, WIRED, "Twitter Will Quarantine Politicians’ Tweets If They Violate Rules—Finally," 27 June 2019 Salmon can have a hard time navigating a deeply forested lake to find food as juveniles or spawning areas as adults, and other fish can be flat out strangled in the lakes for lack of oxygen. — Elizabeth Earl, Anchorage Daily News, "Invasive elodea prompts closure of Susitna Valley lakes," 20 June 2019 And flat out follow the law, don't enter the country illegally, put yourself and your children at jeopardy. — Fox News, "ABC axes 'Roseanne' following star's racially-charged tweet," 30 May 2018 With big producers like Saudi Arabia, Russia and the U.S. all pumping almost flat out, output disruptions elsewhere could threaten global supply, and stoke prices once again. — Benoit Faucon, WSJ, "Over a Barrel: U.S. Pushes Middle East Deals Ahead of Iran Oil Ban," 1 Nov. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'flat-out.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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flat-out
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flat-out
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