plain

Meanings

• extensive tract of level open land
  • "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"
• a basic knitting stitch
• express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness
  • "My mother complains all day"
• clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment
  • "made his meaning plain"
  • "it is plain that he is no reactionary"
  • "in plain view"
• not elaborate or elaborated; simple
  • "plain food"
  • "stuck to the plain facts"
  • "a plain blue suit"
  • "a plain rectangular brick building"
• lacking patterns especially in color
• not mixed with extraneous elements
  • "plain water"
• free from any effort to soften to disguise
  • "the plain and unvarnished truth"
• lacking embellishment or ornamentation
  • "a plain hair style"
• lacking in physical beauty or proportion
  • "a plain girl with a freckled face"
• unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly')
  • "You are plainly wrong"
  • "he is plain stubborn"

Synonyms

apparent, apparently, bare, champaign, complain, evident, evidently, field, homely, kick, knit, knit stitch, kvetch, manifest, manifestly, obviously, patent, patently, plain stitch, plainly, quetch, sheer, sound off, spare, unembellished, unmingled, unmistakable, unmixed, unornamented, unpatterned, unvarnished