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plain

noun

1 plain

Extensive tract of level open land:
— They emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain.

synonyms: champaign, field.

Roget 213: horizontality; flatness; level, plane; stratum etc. 204; dead level, dead flat; level plane.    recumbency, lying down etc. v.; ... show more

Roget 344: plain, table-land, face of the country; open country, champaign country; basin, downs, waste, weary waste, desert, wild, steppe, pampas, savanna, ... show more

Dutch: veld, laagvlakte, vlak, vlakte
Polish: równina

2 plain

A basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the lefthand side.

synonyms: knit, knit stitch, plain stitch.

verb

1 plain

Express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness:
— My mother complains all day.

synonyms: complain, kick, kvetch, quetch, sound off.

Dutch: kankeren, beklagen, reclameren

adjective

1 plain

Clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment:
— Made his meaning plain.
— It is plain that he is no reactionary.
— In plain view.

synonyms: apparent, evident, manifest, palpable, patent, unmistakable.

Roget 518: intelligible; clear, clear as day, clear as noonday; lucid; perspicuous, transpicuous; luminous, transparent.    easily understood, easy to understand, for the million, intelligible to the meanest capacity, popularized.    ... show more

Roget 525: manifest, apparent; salient, striking, demonstrative, prominent, in the foreground, notable, pronounced.    flagrant; notorious etc. (public) ... show more

Roget 446: visible, perceptible, perceivable, discernible, apparent; in view, in full view, in sight; exposed to view, en vidence; unclouded, unobscured, in the foreground.    ... show more

Polish: ewidentny

2 plain

Not elaborate or elaborated; simple.

Polish: prosty

3 plain

Lacking patterns especially in color.

synonym: unpatterned.

4 plain

Not mixed with extraneous elements:
— Plain water.

synonyms: sheer, unmingled, unmixed.

5 plain

Free from any effort to soften to disguise:
— The plain and unvarnished truth.

synonym: unvarnished.

Roget 576: plain, simple; unornamented, unadorned, unvarnished; homely, homespun; neat; severe, chaste, pure, Saxon; commonplace, ... show more

6 plain

Lacking embellishment or ornamentation:
— A plain hair style.

synonyms: bare, spare, unembellished, unornamented.

Roget 849: simple, plain; homely, homespun; ordinary, household.    unaffected; ingenuous, sincere (artless) 703; free from affectation, free from ornament; simplex munditiis [Lat.] ... show more

7 plain

Lacking in physical beauty or proportion:
— A plain girl with a freckled face.

synonym: homely.

Roget 846: ugly, ugly as sin, ugly as a toad, ugly as a scarecrow, ugly as a dead monkey; plain, bald (unadorned) 849; homely; ordinary, unornamental, inartistic; unsightly, ... show more

adverb

1 plain

Unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly'):
— You are plainly wrong.
— He is plain stubborn.

synonyms: apparently, evidently, manifestly, obviously, patently, plainly.


Moby thesaurus: Attic, Bohemian, Ciceronian, Lebensraum, Mickey Mouse, Spartan, abrupt, absolute, absolutely, affable, agricultural region, air space, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-out, all-pervading, apparent, arable land, articulate, artless ... show more.

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