Synonyms

evident apparent patent manifest

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"

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simple modest

Examples

"comfortable but modest cottages" "a simple rectangular brick building" "a simple man with simple tastes"

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unornamented unembellished

Examples

"a plain hair style" "unembellished white walls" "functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete"

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field champaign

Examples

"they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain" "he longed for the fields of his youth"

Examples

"plain food" "stuck to the plain facts" "a plain blue suit" "a plain rectangular brick building"

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sheer unmixed unmingled

Examples

"plain water" "sheer wine" "not an unmixed blessing"

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unvarnished

Examples

"the plain and unvarnished truth" "the unvarnished candor of old people and children"

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unpatterned

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homely

Examples

"a homely child" "several of the buildings were downright homely" "a plain girl with a freckled face"

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unembellished literal

Examples

"a literal description" "wrote good but plain prose" "a plain unadorned account of the coronation" "a forthright unembellished style"

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popular

Examples

"written for the popular press in plain nontechnical language"

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complain quetch sound_off kvetch kick

Examples

"My mother complains all day" "She has a lot to kick about"

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obviously evidently plainly manifestly apparently patently

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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knit_stitch plain_stitch knit