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(satellite adjective) lacking embellishment or ornamentation; "a plain hair style"; "unembellished white walls"; "functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete" |
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Synonyms: unembellished, unornamented |
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(satellite adjective) free from any effort to soften to disguise; "the plain and unvarnished truth"; "the unvarnished candor of old people and children" |
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Synonyms: unvarnished |
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(satellite adjective) comprehensible to the general public; "written for the popular press in plain nontechnical language" |
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Synonyms: popular |
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(adjective) lacking patterns especially in color |
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Synonyms: unpatterned |
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Antonyms: patterned |
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(adjective) not elaborate or elaborated; simple; "plain food"; "stuck to the plain facts" |
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Antonyms: fancy |
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(satellite adjective) not mixed with extraneous elements; "plain water"; "sheer wine"; "not an unmixed blessing" |
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Synonyms: sheer, unmingled, unmixed |
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(noun) extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of his youth" |
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Synonyms: champaign, field |
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Related Words: Olympia, dry land, earth, flat, ground, land, moor, moorland, snowfield, solid ground, steppe, terra firma, tundra |
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(satellite adjective) lacking in physical beauty or proportion; "a homely child"; "several of the buildings were downright homely"; "a plain girl with a freckled face" |
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Synonyms: homely |
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(satellite adjective) free from pomp or affectation; "comfortable but modest cottages"; "a plain blue suit"; "a simple rectangular brick building"; "a simple man with simple tastes" |
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Synonyms: modest, simple |
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(satellite adjective) lacking stylistic embellishment; "a literal description"; "wrote good but plain prose"; "a plain unadorned account of the coronation"; "a forthright unembellished style" |
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Synonyms: literal, unembellished |
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(verb) express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness; "My mother complains all day"; "She has a lot to kick about" |
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Synonyms: complain, kick, kvetch, quetch, sound off |
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Related Words: backbite, beef, bellyache, bemoan, bewail, bitch, bleat, croak, deplore, gnarl, gripe, grizzle, grouch, grouse, grumble, hen-peck, holler, inveigh, lament, murmur, mutter, nag, peck, protest, rail, regret, repine, report, scold, squawk, whine, yammer, yawp |
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(noun) a basic knitting stitch |
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Synonyms: knit, knit stitch, plain stitch |
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Related Words: knitting stitch |
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(satellite adjective) clearly apparent or obvious to the mind or senses; "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" |
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Synonyms: apparent, evident, manifest, patent |
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(adverb) unmistakably; "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"; (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly' as in "he is plain stubborn") |
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Synonyms: apparently, evidently, manifestly, obviously, patently, plainly |
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