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| ADJECTIVE | 1 | plain, apparent, evident, manifest, patent | Clearly apparent or obvious to the mind or senses |
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| 2 | plain | Not elaborate or elaborated | |
| 3 | plain, unpatterned | Lacking patterns especially in color | |
| 4 | plain, sheer, unmingled, unmixed | Not mixed with extraneous elements | |
| 5 | plain, unvarnished | Free from any effort to soften to disguise | |
| 6 | plain, unembellished, unornamented | Lacking embellishment or ornamentation | |
| 7 | plain, literal, unembellished | Lacking stylistic embellishment | |
| 8 | plain, popular | Comprehensible to the general public | |
| 9 | plain, homely | Lacking in physical beauty or proportion | |
| ADVERB | 1 | plain, obviously, evidently, manifestly, patently, apparently, plainly | Unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly') |
| NOUN | 1 | plain, field, champaign | Extensive tract of level open land |
| 2 | plain, knit, knit stitch, plain stitch | A basic knitting stitch | |
| VERB | 1 | plain, complain, kick, sound off, quetch, kvetch | Express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness |
| Sounds | pley'n |
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| Rhymes | abstain, again, airplane, and 116 more rhymes in eyn at the HyperDic website... |
| Meaning | Clearly apparent or obvious to the mind or senses. |
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| Examples | "made his meaning plain"; "it is plain that he is no reactionary"; "in plain view" |
| Synonyms | apparent, evident, manifest, patent |
| Similar to | obvious |
| Adverbs | plainly |
| Meaning | Not elaborate or elaborated. Simple. |
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| Examples | "plain food"; "stuck to the plain facts"; "a plain blue suit"; "a plain rectangular brick building" |
| Similar | austere, severe, stark; bare, mere, simple; chaste; dry; dry; featureless; homely; inelaborate, unelaborate; literal, pure and simple; simple; tailored, trim |
| See also | unadorned, undecorated; unpretentious; unrhetorical; simple |
| Contrary | fancy |
| Meaning | Lacking patterns especially in color. |
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| Synonyms | unpatterned |
| Similar | solid, self-colored, self-coloured |
| Contrary | patterned |
| Meaning | Not mixed with extraneous elements. |
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| Examples | "plain water" |
| Synonyms | sheer, unmingled, unmixed |
| Similar to | pure |
| Meaning | Free from any effort to soften to disguise. |
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| Examples | "the plain and unvarnished truth" |
| Synonyms | unvarnished |
| Similar to | direct |
| Meaning | Lacking embellishment or ornamentation. |
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| Examples | "a plain hair style" |
| Synonyms | unembellished, unornamented |
| Similar to | unadorned, undecorated |
| Meaning | Lacking stylistic embellishment. |
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| Examples | "wrote good but plain prose"; "a plain unadorned account of the coronation" |
| Synonyms | literal, unembellished |
| Similar to | unrhetorical |
| Meaning | Comprehensible to the general public. |
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| Examples | "written for the popular press in plain nontechnical language" |
| Synonyms | popular |
| Similar to | general |
| Meaning | Lacking in physical beauty or proportion. |
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| Examples | "a plain girl with a freckled face" |
| Synonyms | homely |
| Similar to | unattractive |
| Meaning | Extensive tract of level open land. |
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| Examples | "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain" |
| Synonyms | field, champaign |
| Narrower | Olympia; Nullarbor Plain; flat; floodplain, flood plain; llano; moor, moorland; peneplain, peneplane; snowfield; steppe; tundra |
| Broader | land, dry land, earth, ground, solid ground, terra firma |
| Meaning | A basic knitting stitch. |
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| Synonyms | knit, knit stitch, plain stitch |
| Broader | knitting stitch |
| Meaning | Unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly'). |
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| Examples | "You are plainly wrong"; "he is plain stubborn" |
| Synonyms | obviously, evidently, manifestly, patently, apparently, plainly |
| Usage | colloquialism |
| Meaning | Express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE |
| Examples | "My mother complains all day" |
| Synonyms | complain, kick, sound off, quetch, kvetch |
| Narrower | nag, peck, hen-peck; backbite, bitch; whine, grizzle, yammer, yawp; murmur, mutter, grumble, croak, gnarl; grouch, grumble, scold; protest; repine; gripe, grouse, crab, beef, squawk, bellyache, holler; rail, inveigh; deplore, lament, bewail, bemoan; report; bleat |
| Contrary | cheer, cheer up, chirk up |