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"plain water"adjectivenot mixed with extraneous elements
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"My mother complains all day"verbexpress complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness
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"made his meaning plain" "it is plain that he is no reactionary" "in plain view"adjectiveclearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment
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"the plain and unvarnished truth"adjectivefree from any effort to soften to disguise
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"a plain hair style"adjectivelacking embellishment or ornamentation
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"You are plainly wrong" "he is plain stubborn"adverbunmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly')
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"they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"nounextensive tract of level open landtype of:
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adjectivelacking patterns especially in color
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"a plain girl with a freckled face"adjectivelacking in physical beauty or proportion
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nouna basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the lefthand side
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"plain food" "stuck to the plain facts" "a plain blue suit" "a plain rectangular brick building"adjectivenot elaborate or elaborated; simple
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bitch earth land report simple ground kick field obviously dry flat apparently spare pure obvious direct complain beef protest bare mere severe crab sheer stark rail scold vanilla holler trim stern apparent evidently manifest peck knit nag patent evident lament whine moor literal croak grouch plainly unattractive steppe chaste murmur squawk tundra grouse homely yawp tailored unmistakable palpable mutter grumble austere bleat patently gripe unpretentious deplore bellyache champaign yammer grizzle plainness manifestly featureless unmixed kvetch bemoan unornamented undecorated floodplain llano unvarnished unadorned moorland snowfield unmingled quetch sound off repine hen-peck inveigh backbite bewail gnarl unembellished dry land terra firma solid ground flood plain peneplain peneplane unpatterned solid-coloured solid-colored knit stitch plain stitch knitting stitch unelaborate inelaborate unrhetorical