plainness

Roget category 576

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.10. Means of communicating ideas
›› 4.10.2. Conventional means

#576. Plainness

noun

plainness etc. adj. — simplicity, severity — plain terms, plain English — Saxon English — household words

verb

call a spade 'a spade' —" plunge in medias res — come to the point.

adjective

plain, simple — unornamented, unadorned, unvarnished — homely, homespun — neat — severe, chaste, pure, Saxon — commonplace, matter-of-fact, natural, prosaic.
dry, unvaried, monotonous etc. 575.

adverb

in plain terms, in plain words, in plain English, in plain common parlance — point-blank.

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