Lackluster Crossword Clue

We think the answer is "FLAT" which means:

adjective
• • Lacking contrast or shading between tones
• • (of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone
noun
• • A level tract of land
• • A shallow box in which seedlings are started
• • A musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named
• • Freight car without permanent sides or roof
• • A deflated pneumatic tire
• • Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting
• • A suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
adverb
• • With flat sails
• • In a forthright manner; candidly or frankly
adjective satellite
• • Having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another
• • Having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness
• • Not modified or restricted by reservations
• • Stretched out and lying at full length along the ground
• • Flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
• • Lacking taste or flavor or tang
• • Lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting
• • Having lost effervescence
• • Sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
• • Horizontally level
• • Lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth
• • Not reflecting light; not glossy
• • Commercially inactive
verb
• • To make a flat call; to call without raising.
• • To become flat or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
• • To fall from the pitch.
• • To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
• • To make flat; to flatten; to level.
• • To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.
• • To beat or strike; pound
• • To dash or throw
• • To dash, rush

An example sentence would be:

• • "I live in a small flat in the city."
• • "She's looking for a flat to rent."

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