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Plain Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Plain? [n] a basic knitting stitch [n] extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of his youth" [adv] 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") [adj] lacking embellishment or ornamentation; "a plain hair style"; "unembellished white walls"; "functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete" [adj] lacking in physical beauty or proportion; "a homely child"; "several of the buildings were downright homely"; "a plain girl with a freckled face" [adj] free from any effort to soften to disguise; "the plain and unvarnished truth"; "the unvarnished candor of old people and children" [adj] comprehensible to the general public; "written for the popular press in plain nontechnical language" [adj] 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" [adj] lacking patterns especially in color [adj] not elaborate or elaborated; simple; "plain food"; "stuck to the plain facts"; "a plain blue suit"; "a plain rectangular brick building" [adj] not mixed with extraneous elements; "plain water"; "sheer wine"; "not an unmixed blessing" [adj] lacking stylistic embellishment; "a literal description"; "wrote good but plain prose"; "a plain unadorned account of the coronation"; "a forthright unembellished style" [v] express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness; "My mother complains all day"; "She has a lot to kick about" 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distinct \| distinctive \| down \| downright \| drab \| dry \| dull \| dust bowl \| dyed-in-the-wool \| dysphemistic \| dysphemized \| earth \| easy \| easy as pie \| easygoing \| effortless \| egregious \| elegant \| elementary \| empty view \| esplanade \| essential \| even \| everyday \| evident \| exhaustive \| explicit \| express \| facile \| familiar \| farm belt \| farm country \| farmland \| featureless \| finished \| flat \| flatland \| flattened \| floor \| flush \| folksy \| forthright \| frank \| frankhearted \| free \| free and easy \| free-speaking \| free-spoken \| free-tongued \| friendly \| fruit belt \| fundamental \| garden \| garden-variety \| genuine \| glade \| glaring \| glib \| graceful \| gracile \| gracious \| graphic \| grass roots \| grassland \| grazing region \| ground \| guileless \| haymish \| hearable \| heart-to-heart \| heath \| hi-fi \| high-fidelity \| highlands \| homaloid \| homaloidal \| homelike \| homely \| homespun \| homey \| homish \| homogeneous \| honest \| horizontal \| horizontal axis \| horizontal fault \| horizontal line \| horizontal parallax \| horizontal plane \| horizontal projection \| household \| humble \| humble-looking \| humblest \| humble-visaged \| humdrum \| ill-favored \| in focus \| indisputable \| indivisible \| indubitable \| inelegant \| informal \| ingenu \| ingenuous \| inglorious \| innocent \| innocuous \| insipid \| intelligible \| intensive \| intimate \| irreducible \| irregular \| irretrievably \| irrevocably \| lean \| least \| Lebensraum \| ledge \| legible \| level \| level line \| level plane \| light \| limpid \| living space \| llano \| loose \| loud and clear \| low \| lowborn \| lowbred \| lowest \| lowlands \| lowliest \| lowly \| lucid \| luminous \| manifest \| marred \| matter-of-fact \| mead \| meadows and pastures \| mean \| mean sea level \| mere \| Mickey Mouse \| modest \| monolithic \| moor \| moorland \| moors \| mundane \| muted \| naive \| natural \| neat \| nonclerical \| nondescript \| nothing to it \| noticeable \| observable \| obvious \| of a piece \| offhand \| offhanded \| omnibus \| omnipresent \| open \| open country \| open space \| open-and-shut \| openhearted \| ordinary \| out-and-out \| outback \| outright \| outspoken \| painless \| palpable \| pampas \| parterre \| pasture \| patent \| peaceful \| pedestrian \| pellucid \| perceivable \| perceptible \| perfect \| perfectly \| perspicuous \| pervasive \| plain as day \| plains \| plain-speaking \| plain-spoken \| plane \| plateau \| platform \| plebeian \| plumb \| poetryless \| polished \| poor \| prairie \| prairies \| primal \| primary \| prominent \| pronounced \| prosaic \| prose \| prosing \| prosy \| province \| provinces \| pure \| pure and simple \| quite \| radical \| refined \| regular \| relaxed \| restrained \| right \| rolled \| round \| rude \| rural district \| rustic \| rustic region \| savanna \| sea level \| sea of grass \| seeable \| self-evident \| self-explaining \| self-explanatory \| severe \| shabby-genteel \| sheer \| short \| short on looks \| simon-pure \| simple \| simple as ABC \| simplehearted \| simpleminded \| simple-speaking \| sincere \| single \| single-hearted \| single-minded \| small \| smooth \| smoothed out \| smoothened \| snug \| sober \| sociable \| soft \| spare \| Spartan \| spoiled \| squashed \| squashed flat \| staring \| stark \| steppe \| steppes \| straight \| straightforward \| straight-out \| sweeping \| table \| tabloid \| tabular \| tangible \| tasteful \| teachable \| terrace \| terrain \| territory \| terse \| the country \| the soil \| the sticks \| third-estate \| thorough \| thoroughgoing \| through-and-through \| tiresome \| to be seen \| tobacco belt \| total \| translucent \| transparent \| transpicuous \| trim \| trodden \| trodden flat \| trustful \| trusting \| tundra \| ubiquitous \| uglified \| ugly \| ugly as hell \| ugly as sin \| unadorned \| unadulterated \| unaesthetic \| unaffected \| unalluring \| unambiguous \| unassuming \| unattractive \| unbeauteous \| unbeautiful \| unburdensome \| unceremonious \| unchecked \| uncluttered \| uncomely \| uncomplicated \| unconcealed \| unconditional \| unconfused \| unconstrained \| unconventional \| undecorated \| understandable \| undifferenced \| undifferentiated \| undiluted \| undisguised \| undissembled \| undissembling \| undistinguished \| unelaborate \| unembellished \| unenhanced \| unequivocal \| unfeigned \| ungarnished \| ungenteel \| unguarded \| unhandsome \| unidealistic \| uniform \| unimaginative \| unimpassioned \| unimportant \| universal \| univocal \| unlabored \| unlovely \| unluxurious \| unmistakable \| unmitigated \| unmixed \| unofficial \| unornamented \| unostentatious \| unpleasing \| unpoetic \| unpoetical \| unpretending \| unpretentious \| unpretty \| unqualified \| unrelievedly \| unremarkable \| unreserved \| unrestrained \| unrestricted \| unromantic \| unsightly \| unsophisticated \| unstudied \| unsuspicious \| unvarnished \| unwary \| uplands \| utter \| vapid \| veld \| veldt \| veritable \| visible \| vivid \| vulgar \| water level \| well-defined \| well-marked \| well-pronounced \| well-resolved \| wheat belt \| wholesale \| wide-open spaces \| wilderness \| wold \| woodland \| woods and fields \| workaday \| workday \| yokeldom See Also \| backbite \| beef \| bellyache \| bemoan \| bewail \| bitch \| bleat \| croak \| deplore \| dry land \| earth \| flat \| gnarl \| gripe \| grizzle \| grouch \| ground \| grouse \| grumble \| hen-peck \| holler \| inveigh \| knitting stitch \| lament \| land \| llano \| moor \| moorland \| murmur \| mutter \| nag \| Olympia \| peck \| protest \| rail \| regret \| repine \| report \| scold \| simple \| snowfield \| solid ground \| squawk \| steppe \| terra firma \| tundra \| unpretentious \| unrhetorical \| whine \| yammer \| yawp Plain In Webster's Dictionary \Plain\, v. i. [OE. playne, pleyne, fr. F. plaindre. See {Plaint}.] To lament; to bewail; to complain. [Archaic & Poetic] --Milton. We with piteous heart unto you pleyne. --Chaucer. \Plain\, v. t. To lament; to mourn over; as, to plain a loss. [Archaic & Poetic] --Sir J. Harrington. \Plain\, a. [Compar. {Plainer}; superl. {Plainest}.] [F., level, flat, fr. L. planus, perhaps akin to E. floor. Cf. {Llano}, {Piano}, {Plan}, {Plane} level, a level surface.] 1. Without elevations or depressions; flat; level; smooth; even. See {Plane}. The crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain. --Isa. xl. 4. 2. Open; clear; unencumbered; equal; fair. Our troops beat an army in plain fight. --Felton. 3. Not intricate or difficult; evident; manifest; obvious; clear; unmistakable. ``'T is a plain case.'' --Shak. 4. (a) Void of extraneous beauty or ornament; without conspicious embellishment; not rich; simple. (b) Not highly cultivated; unsophisticated; free from show or pretension; simple; natural; homely; common. ``Plain yet pious Christians.'' --Hammond. ``The plain people.'' --A. Lincoln. (c) Free from affectation or disguise; candid; sincere; artless; honest; frank. ``An honest mind, and plain.'' --Shak. (d) Not luxurious; not highly seasoned; simple; as, plain food. (e) Without beauty; not handsome; homely; as, a plain woman. (f) Not variegated, dyed, or figured; as, plain muslin. (g) Not much varied by modulations; as, a plain tune. {Plain battle}, open battle; pitched battle. [Obs.] --Chaucer. {Plain chant} (Mus.) Same as {Plain song}, below. {Plain chart} (Naut.), a chart laid down on Mercator's projection. {Plain dealer}. (a) One who practices plain dealing. (b) A simpleton. [Obs.] --Shak. {Plain dealing}. See under {Dealing}. {Plain molding} (Join.), molding of which the surfaces are plain figures. {Plain sewing}, sewing of seams by simple and common stitches, in distinct from fancy work, embroidery, etc.; -- distinguished also from designing and fitting garments. {Plain song}. (a) The Gregorian chant, or {canto fermo}; the prescribed melody of the Roman Catholic service, sung in unison, in tones of equal length, and rarely extending beyond the compass of an octave. (b) A simple melody. {Plain speaking}, plainness or bluntness of speech. Syn: Level; flat; smooth; open; artless; unaffected; undisguised; frank; sincere; honest; candid; ingenuous; unembellished; downright; blunt; clear; simple; distinct; manifest; obvious; apparent. See {Manifest}. \Plain\, adv. In a plain manner; plainly. ``To speak short and pleyn.'' --Chaucer. ``To tell you plain.'' --Shak. \Plain\, n. [Cf. OF. plaigne, F. plaine. See {Plain}, a.] 1. 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. Descending fro the mountain into playn. --Chaucer. Him the Ammonite Worshiped in Rabba and her watery plain. --Milton. 2. A field of battle. [Obs.] --Arbuthnot. Lead forth my soldiers to the plain. --Shak. \Plain\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Plained}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Plaining}.] [Cf. {Plane}, v.] 1. To plane or level; to make plain or even on the surface. [R.] We would rake Europe rather, plain the East. --Wither. 2. To make plain or manifest; to explain. What's dumb in show, I'll plain in speech. --Shak.

Plain Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Plain?

[n] a basic knitting stitch
[n] extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of his youth"
[adv] 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")
[adj] lacking embellishment or ornamentation; "a plain hair style"; "unembellished white walls"; "functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete"
[adj] lacking in physical beauty or proportion; "a homely child"; "several of the buildings were downright homely"; "a plain girl with a freckled face"
[adj] free from any effort to soften to disguise; "the plain and unvarnished truth"; "the unvarnished candor of old people and children"
[adj] comprehensible to the general public; "written for the popular press in plain nontechnical language"
[adj] 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"
[adj] lacking patterns especially in color
[adj] not elaborate or elaborated; simple; "plain food"; "stuck to the plain facts"; "a plain blue suit"; "a plain rectangular brick building"
[adj] not mixed with extraneous elements; "plain water"; "sheer wine"; "not an unmixed blessing"
[adj] lacking stylistic embellishment; "a literal description"; "wrote good but plain prose"; "a plain unadorned account of the coronation"; "a forthright unembellished style"
[v] express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness; "My mother complains all day"; "She has a lot to kick about"

Plain In Webster's Dictionary

\Plain\, v. i. [OE. playne, pleyne, fr. F. plaindre. See
{Plaint}.]
To lament; to bewail; to complain. [Archaic & Poetic]
--Milton.

      We with piteous heart unto you pleyne.   --Chaucer.


\Plain\, v. t.
To lament; to mourn over; as, to plain a loss. [Archaic &
Poetic] --Sir J. Harrington.


\Plain\, a. [Compar. {Plainer}; superl. {Plainest}.] [F.,
level, flat, fr. L. planus, perhaps akin to E. floor. Cf.
{Llano}, {Piano}, {Plan}, {Plane} level, a level surface.]
1. Without elevations or depressions; flat; level; smooth;
   even. See {Plane}.

         The crooked shall be made straight, and the rough
         places plain.                         --Isa. xl. 4.

2. Open; clear; unencumbered; equal; fair.

         Our troops beat an army in plain fight. --Felton.

3. Not intricate or difficult; evident; manifest; obvious;
   clear; unmistakable. ``'T is a plain case.'' --Shak.

4.
   (a) Void of extraneous beauty or ornament; without
       conspicious embellishment; not rich; simple.
   (b) Not highly cultivated; unsophisticated; free from show
       or pretension; simple; natural; homely; common.
       ``Plain yet pious Christians.'' --Hammond. ``The plain
       people.'' --A. Lincoln.
   (c) Free from affectation or disguise; candid; sincere;
       artless; honest; frank. ``An honest mind, and plain.''
       --Shak.
   (d) Not luxurious; not highly seasoned; simple; as, plain
       food.
   (e) Without beauty; not handsome; homely; as, a plain
       woman.
   (f) Not variegated, dyed, or figured; as, plain muslin.
   (g) Not much varied by modulations; as, a plain tune.

{Plain battle}, open battle; pitched battle. [Obs.]
   --Chaucer.

{Plain chant} (Mus.) Same as {Plain song}, below.

{Plain chart} (Naut.), a chart laid down on Mercator's
   projection.

{Plain dealer}.
   (a) One who practices plain dealing.
   (b) A simpleton. [Obs.] --Shak.

{Plain dealing}. See under {Dealing}.

{Plain molding} (Join.), molding of which the surfaces are
   plain figures.

{Plain sewing}, sewing of seams by simple and common
   stitches, in distinct from fancy work, embroidery, etc.;
   -- distinguished also from designing and fitting garments.


{Plain song}.
   (a) The Gregorian chant, or {canto fermo}; the prescribed
       melody of the Roman Catholic service, sung in unison,
       in tones of equal length, and rarely extending beyond
       the compass of an octave.
   (b) A simple melody.

{Plain speaking}, plainness or bluntness of speech.

Syn: Level; flat; smooth; open; artless; unaffected;
     undisguised; frank; sincere; honest; candid; ingenuous;
     unembellished; downright; blunt; clear; simple;
     distinct; manifest; obvious; apparent. See {Manifest}.


\Plain\, adv.
In a plain manner; plainly. ``To speak short and pleyn.''
--Chaucer. ``To tell you plain.'' --Shak.


\Plain\, n. [Cf. OF. plaigne, F. plaine. See {Plain}, a.]
1. 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.

         Descending fro the mountain into playn. --Chaucer.

         Him the Ammonite Worshiped in Rabba and her watery
         plain.                                --Milton.

2. A field of battle. [Obs.] --Arbuthnot.

         Lead forth my soldiers to the plain.  --Shak.


\Plain\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Plained}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Plaining}.] [Cf. {Plane}, v.]
1. To plane or level; to make plain or even on the surface.
   [R.]

         We would rake Europe rather, plain the East.
                                               --Wither.

2. To make plain or manifest; to explain.

         What's dumb in show, I'll plain in speech. --Shak.

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