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Definition of 'Plain'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (adj.) plain
clear or distinct to the eye or ear:
in plain view.

2.  plain
clear to the mind; evident:
to make one's meaning plain.

3.  plain
easily understood:
plain talk.

4.  plain
downright; sheer; utter:
plain stupidity.

5.  plain
free from ambiguity or evasion; candid:
the plain truth.

6.  plain
without special pretensions; ordinary:
plain people.

7.  plain
not beautiful; unattractive:
a plain face.

8.  plain
without intricacies or difficulties.

9.  plain
with little or no embellishment or decoration:
a plain blue suit.

10.  plain
without a pattern, figure, or device:
a plain fabric.

11.  plain
not rich, highly seasoned, or elaborately prepared, as food.

12.  plain
flat or level:
plain country.

13. (adv.) plain
clearly and simply:
They're just plain stupid.

14. (n.) plain
an area of land not significantly higher than adjacent areas and with relatively minor differences in elevation, commonly less than 500 ft. (150 m), within the area.

15.  plain
The Plains,

Etymology: (1720–30; cf. F)

Definition of 'Plain'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) plain, field, champaign
extensive tract of level open land
"they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of his youth"

2. (adj) knit, knit stitch, plain, plain stitch
a basic knitting stitch

3. (adj) apparent, evident, manifest, patent, plain, unmistakable
clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment
"the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields"; "evident hostility"; "manifest disapproval"; "patent advantages"; "made his meaning plain"; "it is plain that he is no reactionary"; "in plain view"

4. (adj) plain
not elaborate or elaborated; simple
"plain food"; "stuck to the plain facts"; "a plain blue suit"; "a plain rectangular brick building"

5. (adj) plain, unpatterned
lacking patterns especially in color

6. (adj) plain, sheer, unmingled, unmixed
not mixed with extraneous elements
"plain water"; "sheer wine"; "not an unmixed blessing"

7. (adj) plain, unvarnished
free from any effort to soften to disguise
"the plain and unvarnished truth"; "the unvarnished candor of old people and children"

8. (adj) plain, bare, spare, unembellished, unornamented
lacking embellishment or ornamentation
"a plain hair style"; "unembellished white walls"; "functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete"

9. (verb) homely, plain
lacking in physical beauty or proportion
"a homely child"; "several of the buildings were downright homely"; "a plain girl with a freckled face"

10. (adverb) complain, kick, plain, sound off, quetch, kvetch
express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness
"My mother complains all day"; "She has a lot to kick about"

11. (adverb) obviously, evidently, manifestly, patently, apparently, plainly, plain
unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly')
"the answer is obviously wrong"; "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"

Definition of 'Plain'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (adjective) plain
without decoration or extra things added; = simple
plain white plates; good plain food

2.  plain
easy to see or understand; = clear
It was plain that the plan wasn't working.; a document written in plain English

3.  plain
make it plain
to make very easy to understand
He made it plain that he was not interested.

4.  plain
plain speaking
a clear and direct way of talking
He prides himself on his plain speaking.

5.  plain
plain and simple
emphasizes sth is done in a clear, definite way
The union refused to accept it, plain and simple.

6.  plain
(of a person) not very pretty or attractive
a plain child

7. (noun) plain
a large flat area of land
the plains of the Midwestern U.S.

8. (adverb) plain
emphasizes a bad quality
That was just plain stupid!

Definition of 'Plain'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) Plain
level land; usually, an open field or a broad stretch of land with an even surface, or a surface little varied by inequalities; as, the plain of Jordan; the American plains, or prairies

2. (adj) Plain
a field of battle

3. (adverb) Plain
in a plain manner; plainly

4.  Plain
without elevations or depressions; flat; level; smooth; even. See Plane

5.  Plain
open; clear; unencumbered; equal; fair

6.  Plain
not intricate or difficult; evident; manifest; obvious; clear; unmistakable

7.  Plain
void of extraneous beauty or ornament; without conspicious embellishment; not rich; simple

8.  Plain
not highly cultivated; unsophisticated; free from show or pretension; simple; natural; homely; common

9.  Plain
free from affectation or disguise; candid; sincere; artless; honest; frank

10.  Plain
not luxurious; not highly seasoned; simple; as, plain food

11.  Plain
without beauty; not handsome; homely; as, a plain woman

12.  Plain
not variegated, dyed, or figured; as, plain muslin

13.  Plain
not much varied by modulations; as, a plain tune

14.  Plain
to plane or level; to make plain or even on the surface

15.  Plain
to make plain or manifest; to explain

16. (verb) Plain
to lament; to bewail; to complain

17. (verb) Plain
to lament; to mourn over; as, to plain a loss

Translation of 'Plain'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: simple or ordinary; without ornament or decoration plain living; good, plain food.
Afrikaans: eenvoudig	Arabic: بَسيط، عادي	Bulgarian: равен
Brazilian: simples	Czech: jednoduchý, prostý	German: einfach
Danish: enkel	Greek: απλός, σκέτος	Spanish: sencillo; liso; sin ornam
Estonian: lihtne	Farsi: ساده	Finnish: tavallinen
French: simple	Hebrew: פָּשוּט	Hindi: सादा
Croatian: jednostavan, priprost	Hungarian: egyszerű; sima	Indonesian: sederhana
Icelandic: einfaldur, látlaus	Italian: semplice	Japanese: 簡素な
Korean: 간단한, 소박한	Lithuanian: paprastas, kuklus	Latvian: vienkāršs
Malay: ringkas	Dutch: eenvoudig	Norwegian: enkel, alminnelig, vanlig
Polish: zwykły, prosty	Persian: ساده	Pashto: ساده ډوله، رډه سپينه ( په
Portuguese: simples	Romanian: simplu	Russian: простой
Slovak: jednoduchý	Slovenian: preprost	Serbian: običan
Swedish: enkel, vanlig	Thai: ธรรมดา	Turkish: sade
Taiwanese: 簡樸的	Ukrainian: простий; звичайний	Urdu: سادہ
Vietnamese: đơn sơ; giản dị	Chinese: 简朴的
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