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plain

English

  1. 🔊 lacking embellishment or ornamentation
    “a plain hair style”
  2. 🔊 free from any effort to soften to disguise
    “the plain and unvarnished truth”
  3. 🔊 lacking patterns especially in color
  4. 🔊 not elaborate or elaborated
    “plain food”
  5. 🔊 not mixed with extraneous elements
    “plain water”
  6. 🔊 lacking in physical beauty or proportion
    “a homely child”
  7. 🔊 clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment
    “the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields”
  8. 🔊 extensive tract of level open land
    “they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain”
  9. 🔊 a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the lefthand side
  10. 🔊 unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly')
    “the answer is obviously wrong”
  11. 🔊 express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness
    “My mother complains all day”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 a la pata la llana plain
  2. 🔊 liso plain
  3. 🔊 llanada plain
  4. 🔊 llano plain
  5. 🔊 llanura plain
  6. 🔊 sencillo plain
  7. 🔊 simplón plain
  8. 🔊 desnudo plain, clear, manifest
  9. 🔊 escueto plain, simple (with no adornment, with no superfluous detail, without anything unnecessary)

Similar words

knit knit stitch plain stitch field champaign complain kick sound off quetch kvetch bare spare unembellished unornamented homely unvarnished apparent evident manifest palpable patent unmistakable unpatterned sheer