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

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