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Plain

adjective
(compar. plainer; superl. plainest)
1.
Clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment.  Synonyms: apparent, evident, manifest, patent, unmistakable.  "Evident hostility" , "Manifest disapproval" , "Patent advantages" , "Made his meaning plain" , "It is plain that he is no reactionary" , "In plain view"
2.
Not elaborate or elaborated; simple.  "Stuck to the plain facts" , "A plain blue suit" , "A plain rectangular brick building"
3.
Lacking patterns especially in color.  Synonym: unpatterned.
4.
Not mixed with extraneous elements.  Synonyms: sheer, unmingled, unmixed.  "Sheer wine" , "Not an unmixed blessing"
5.
Free from any effort to soften to disguise.  Synonym: unvarnished.  "The unvarnished candor of old people and children"
6.
Lacking embellishment or ornamentation.  Synonyms: bare, spare, unembellished, unornamented.  "Unembellished white walls" , "Functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete"
7.
Lacking in physical beauty or proportion.  Synonym: homely.  "Several of the buildings were downright homely" , "A plain girl with a freckled face"
noun
1.
Extensive tract of level open land.  Synonyms: champaign, field.  "He longed for the fields of his youth"
2.
A basic knitting stitch.  Synonyms: knit, knit stitch, plain stitch.
adverb
1.
Unmistakably ('plain' is often used informally for 'plainly').  Synonyms: apparently, evidently, manifestly, obviously, patently, plainly.  "She was in bed and evidently in great pain" , "He was manifestly too important to leave off the guest list" , "It is all patently nonsense" , "She has apparently been living here for some time" , "I thought he owned the property, but apparently not" , "You are plainly wrong" , "He is plain stubborn"
verb
(past & past part. plained; pres. part. plaining)
1.
Express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness.  Synonyms: complain, kick, kvetch, quetch, sound off.  "She has a lot to kick about"



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"Plain" Quotes from Famous Books



... took the goddess in his arms, and set her as she sobbed upon his knee, and rose from the peak of Kailas, and shot like a falling star down into the plain below. And coming to Haradwara, where Ganga issues from the hills, he began to follow the holy stream down its course, gliding along just above it like a cloud that was unable to refrain from watching its own beautiful reflection in the blue mirror of her wave. And so they went, until ...
— The Substance of a Dream • F. W. Bain
... me to speak plain," he said, with evident effort, "though it's hard work. You see, sir, this isn't a trifle to me, whatever it may be to you. I'm none o' them men as can go making love first to one woman and then t' another, and don't think it much odds which of 'em I take. What I feel for ...
— Adam Bede • George Eliot
... a funeral procession; I saw it from a mountain peak; I saw it crawling along and curving here and there, serpentlike, through a level vast plain. I seemed to see a hundred miles of the procession, but neither the beginning of it nor the end of it was within the limits of my vision. The procession was in ten divisions, each division marked by a sombre flag, and the whole represented ten years ...
— Chapters from My Autobiography • Mark Twain
... The case is plain; the issue is distinct; You either answer now or out you trot (And kindly make that answer quite succinct): Have all the dumps been sold, or have ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, March 17, 1920 • Various
... Russia, and have to make his living at the expense of all this sort of tom-foolery? Who would abide even for a day in a bazar of curiosity-shops, bothered out of his wits by servants and soldiers, and the flare and glitter of jewelry? It certainly all looked very shallow and troublesome to a plain man, destitute by nature of kingly aspirations. To confess the truth, I was utterly unable to appreciate any thing but the absurdity of these things. I can not discover much difference, save in degree, between barbaric show on the part of savages ...
— The Land of Thor • J. Ross Browne


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