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plain
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[ adjective ] clearly apparent or obvious to the mind or senses
Examples "the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields" "evident hostility" "manifest disapproval" "patent advantages" "made his meaning plain" "in plain view" Used in print (L. Don Leet and Florence J. Leet, editors, The World of...)But it is plain that a warning system , however efficient , is not enough . (Peter J. White, "Report on Laos"...)By 7 : 50 the answer was plain . (Gene Caesar, Rifle for Rent....)The examples were plain . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] free from pomp or affectation
Examples "comfortable but modest cottages" "a simple rectangular brick building" "a simple man with simple tastes" Used in print (Gene Caesar, Rifle for Rent....)They would n't o ' stood no chance with you in a plain , straight-out shoot-down '' . (Morley Callaghan, A Passion in Rome....)Devout , orthodox and plain like a family she might meet in Brooklyn or Malta or Ireland . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] lacking embellishment or ornamentation
Synonyms Examples "a plain hair style" "unembellished white walls" "functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete" Used in print (Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)He then sold her minerals to cure her kidney ailment , a can of sage `` to make her look_like a girl again '' , and an application of plain mud to take her wrinkles away . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (geography) extensive tract of level open land
Examples "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain" "he longed for the fields of his youth" Used in print (John Harnsberger and Robert P. Wilkins,...)On June 24 more than 400 families started the three month trip across the plains to the Mississippi . |
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[ adjective ] not elaborate or elaborated; simple
Examples "plain food" "stuck to the plain facts" "a plain blue suit" "a plain rectangular brick building" Used in print (Francis Pollini, Night....)It is plain as hell Johnson is no Reactionary . |
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[ adjective ] not mixed with extraneous elements
Examples "plain water" "sheer wine" "not an unmixed blessing" Used in print (Jay C. Harris and John R. Van Wazer, "Detergent...)Greasy soils are hardly removed by washing in plain water ; and natural waters , in_addition , often contain impurities such_as calcium salts which can react with soils to make them more difficult to remove . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] free from any effort to soften to disguise
Synonyms Examples "the plain and unvarnished truth" "the unvarnished candor of old people and children" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] lacking patterns especially in color
Synonyms Used in print (Chester G. Starr, The Origins of Greek Civili...)Painters left less and less of a vase in a plain dark color ; instead they divided the surface into many bands or covered it by all-over patterns into which freehand drawing began to creep . |
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[ adjective ] lacking in physical beauty or proportion
Synonyms Examples "a homely child" "several of the buildings were downright homely" "a plain girl with a freckled face" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] lacking stylistic embellishment
Synonyms Examples "a literal description" "wrote good but plain prose" "a plain unadorned account of the coronation" "a forthright unembellished style" Related terms |
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[ verb ] express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness
Examples "My mother complains all day" "She has a lot to kick about" |
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[ adverb ] unmistakably
Synonyms Examples "the answer is obviously wrong" "she was in bed and evidently in great pain" "it is all patently nonsense" "she has apparently been living here for some time" "I thought he owned the property, but apparently not" |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 16401
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[ noun ] a basic knitting stitch
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