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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.;
reclination†,
decumbence†;
decumbency†,
discumbency†;
proneness
etc.
adj.;
accubation†,
supination†,
resupination†,
prostration;
azimuth.
plain,
floor,
platform,
bowling green;
cricket ground;
croquet ground,
croquet lawn;
billiard table;
terrace,
estrade†,
esplanade,
parterre.
[flat land area]
table land,
plateau,
ledge;
butte;
mesa
(plain)
344.
[instrument to measure horizontality]
level,
spirit level.
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Roget 344:
plain,
table-land,
face of the country;
open country,
champaign country†;
basin,
downs,
waste,
weary waste,
desert,
wild,
steppe,
pampas,
savanna,
prairie,
heath,
common,
wold†,
veldt;
moor,
moorland;
bush;
plateau
etc.
(level)
213;
campagna†;
alkali flat,
llano;
mesa,
mesilla [U.S.],
playa;
shaking prairie,
trembling prairie;
vega [Sp.].
meadow,
mead,
haugh†,
pasturage,
park,
field,
lawn,
green,
plat,
plot,
grassplat†,
greensward,
sward,
turf,
sod,
heather;
lea,
ley,
lay;
grounds;
maidan†,
agostadero†.
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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.
plain,
distinct,
explicit;
positive;
definite
etc.
(precise)
494.
graphic;
expressive
etc.
(meaning)
516;
illustrative
etc.
(explanatory)
522.
unambiguous,
unequivocal,
unmistakable
etc.
(manifest)
525;
unconfused;
legible,
recognizable;
obvious
etc.
525.
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Roget 525:
manifest,
apparent;
salient,
striking,
demonstrative,
prominent,
in the foreground,
notable,
pronounced.
flagrant;
notorious
etc.
(public)
531;
arrant;
stark staring;
unshaded,
glaring.
defined,
definite.
distinct,
conspicuous
etc.
(visible)
446;
obvious,
evident,
unmistakable,
indubitable,
not to be mistaken,
palpable,
self-evident,
autoptical†;
intelligible
etc.
518.
plain,
clear,
clear as day,
clear as daylight,
clear as noonday;
plain as a pike staff,
plain as the sun at noon-day,
plain as the nose on one's face,
plain as the way to parish church.
explicit,
overt,
patent,
express;
ostensible;
open,
open as day;
naked,
bare,
literal,
downright,
undisguised,
exoteric.
unreserved,
frank,
plain-spoken
etc.
(artless)
703;
candid
(veracious)
543;
barefaced.
manifested
etc.
v.;
disclosed
etc.
529;
capable of being shown,
producible;
inconcealable†,
unconcealable;
no secret.
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Roget 446:
visible,
perceptible,
perceivable,
discernible,
apparent;
in view,
in full view,
in sight;
exposed to view,
en vidence;
unclouded,
unobscured†,
in the foreground.
obvious
etc.
(manifest)
525;
plain,
clear,
distinct,
definite;
well defined,
well marked;
in focus;
recognizable,
palpable,
autoptical†;
glaring,
staring,
conspicuous;
stereoscopic;
in bold,
in strong relief.
periscopic†,
panoramic.
before one's eyes,
under one's eyes;
before one,
+a vue d'oeil [Fr.],
in one's eye,
oculis subjecta fidelibus [Lat.].
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Polish: ewidentny
2 plain
Not elaborate or elaborated; simple.
Polish: prosty
3 plain
Lacking patterns especially in color.
synonym: unpatterned.
4 plain
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,
matter-of-fact,
natural,
prosaic.
dry,
unvaried,
monotonous
etc.
575.
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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.]
[Horace];
sans facon [Fr.],
en deshabille [Fr.].
chaste,
inornate†,
severe.
unadorned,
bare,
unornamented,
undecked†,
ungarnished,
unarranged†,
untrimmed,
unvarnished.
bald,
flat,
dull.
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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,
unseemly,
uncomely,
unlovely;
unshapely;
sightless,
seemless†;
not fit to be seen;
unbeauteous†,
unbeautiful;
beautiless†,
semibeautiful;
shapeless
etc.
(amorphous)
241.
misshapen,
misproportioned†;
monstrous;
gaunt
etc.
(thin)
203;
dumpy
etc.
(short)
201;
curtailed of its fair proportions;
ill-made,
ill-shaped,
ill-proportioned;
crooked
etc.
(distorted)
243;
hard featured,
hard visaged;
ill-favored,
hard-favored,
evil-favored;
ill-looking;
unprepossessing,
unattractive,
uninviting,
unpleasing.
graceless,
inelegant;
ungraceful,
ungainly,
uncouth,
stiff;
rugged,
rough,
gross,
rude,
awkward,
clumsy,
slouching,
rickety;
gawky;
lumping,
lumpish†;
lumbering;
hulky†,
hulking;
unwieldy.
squalid,
haggard;
grim,
grim faced,
grim visaged;
grisly,
ghastly;
ghost like,
death like;
cadaverous,
grewsome†,
gruesome.
frightful,
hideous,
odious,
uncanny,
forbidding;
repellant,
repulsive,
repugnant,
grotesque,
bizarre;
grody [Coll.],
grody to the max [Coll.];
horrid,
horrible;
shocking
etc.
(painful)
830.
foul
etc.
(dirty)
653;
dingy
etc.
(colorless)
429;
gaudy
etc.
(color)
428;
disfigured
etc.
v.;
discolored.
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adverb
1 plain
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