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Defenition of the word plain

    • Defenition of the word plain

      • An extensive, broad tract of level or rolling, almost treeless land with a shrubby vegetation, usually at a low elevation.
      • Having a surface without slope nor variations in altitude.
      • To state complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness.
      • Having only one color.
      • clearly apparent or obvious to the mind or senses; "the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields"; "evident hostility"; "manifest disapproval"; "patent advantages"; "made his meaning plain"; "it is plain that he is no reactionary"; "in plain view"
      • express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness; "My mother complains all day"; "She has a lot to kick about"
      • lacking in physical beauty or proportion; "a homely child"; "several of the buildings were downright homely"; "a plain girl with a freckled face"
      • a basic knitting stitch
      • lacking stylistic embellishment; "a literal description"; "wrote good but plain prose"; "a plain unadorned account of the coronation"; "a forthright unembellished style"
      • free from pomp or affectation; "comfortable but modest cottages"; "a plain blue suit"; "a simple rectangular brick building"; "a simple man with simple tastes"
      • unmistakably; "the answer is obviously wrong"; "she was in bed and evidently in great pain"; "he was manifestly too important to leave off the guest list"; "it is all patently nonsense"; "she has apparently been living here for some time"; "I thought he owned the property, but apparently not"; "You are plainly wrong"; (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly' as in "he is plain stubborn")
      • not elaborate or elaborated; simple; "plain food"; "stuck to the plain facts"
      • extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of his youth"
      • comprehensible to the general public; "written for the popular press in plain nontechnical language"
      • not mixed with extraneous elements; "plain water"; "sheer wine"; "not an unmixed blessing"
      • lacking embellishment or ornamentation; "a plain hair style"; "unembellished white walls"; "functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete"
      • lacking patterns especially in color
      • free from any effort to soften to disguise; "the plain and unvarnished truth"; "the unvarnished candor of old people and children"
      • clearly apparent or obvious to the mind or senses; "the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields"; "evident hostility"; "manifest disapproval"; "patent advantages"; "made his meaning plain"; "it is plain that he is no reac
      • not elaborate or elaborated; simple; "plain food"; "stuck to the plain facts"; "a plain blue suit"; "a plain rectangular brick building"
      • unmistakably (`plain'' is often used informally for `plainly''); "the answer is obviously wrong"; "she was in bed and evidently in great pain"; "he was manifestly too important to leave off the guest list"; "it is all patently nonsense"; "she has apparent
      • extensive tract of level open land
      • express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness
      • lacking embellishment or ornamentation
      • lacking in physical beauty or proportion
      • free from any effort to soften to disguise
      • clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment
      • not elaborate or elaborated; simple
      • not mixed with extraneous elements
      • unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly')

    Synonyms for the word plain

      • apparent
      • apparently
      • bare
      • basic
      • champaign
      • clear
      • complain
      • evident
      • evidently
      • field
      • homely
      • kick
      • knit
      • knit stitch
      • kvetch
      • literal
      • manifest
      • manifestly
      • modest
      • natural
      • not beautiful
      • obvious
      • obviously
      • ordinary
      • patent
      • patently
      • plain stitch
      • plainly
      • popular
      • pure
      • quetch
      • readily understood
      • sheer
      • simple
      • sound off
      • ugly
      • unadorned
      • unattractive
      • unembellished
      • unmingled
      • unmixed
      • unornamented
      • unpatterned
      • unvarnished

    Similar words in the plain

      • austere
      • bare
      • bare(a)
      • chaste
      • direct
      • dry
      • featureless
      • general
      • homely
      • inelaborate
      • literal
      • mere
      • mere(a)
      • natural
      • obvious
      • plain
      • plainclothesman
      • plainclothesmen
      • plainer
      • plainest
      • plainness
      • plainness's
      • plains
      • plaint
      • plaint's
      • plaintiff
      • plaintiff's
      • plaintiffs
      • plaintive
      • plaintively
      • plaints
      • pure
      • pure and simple
      • self-colored
      • self-coloured
      • severe
      • simple
      • simple(a)
      • solid
      • stark
      • tailored
      • trim
      • unadorned
      • unattractive
      • undecorated
      • unelaborate
      • unpretentious
      • unrhetorical

    Hyponyms for the word plain

      • backbite
      • beef
      • bellyache
      • bemoan
      • bewail
      • bitch
      • bleat
      • crab
      • croak
      • deplore
      • flat
      • flood plain
      • floodplain
      • gnarl
      • gripe
      • grizzle
      • grouch
      • grouse
      • grumble
      • hen-peck
      • holler
      • inveigh
      • lament
      • llano
      • moor
      • moorland
      • murmur
      • mutter
      • nag
      • Nullarbor Plain
      • Olympia
      • peck
      • peneplain
      • peneplane
      • protest
      • rail
      • repine
      • report
      • scold
      • snowfield
      • squawk
      • steppe
      • tundra
      • whine
      • yammer
      • yawp

    Hypernyms for the word plain

      • dry land
      • earth
      • ground
      • knitting stitch
      • land
      • solid ground
      • terra firma

    Antonyms for the word plain

      • cheer
      • cheer up
      • chirk up
      • fancy
      • patterned

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