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English - English Dict (Wordnet)
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Adjective - lacking in physical beauty or proportion
- several of the buildings were downright homely
- a plain girl with a freckled face
- lacking embellishment or ornamentation
- unembellished white walls
- functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete
- free from any effort to soften to disguise
- the plain and unvarnished truth
- the unvarnished candor of old people and children
- not mixed with extraneous elements
- lacking patterns especially in color
- not elaborate or elaborated; simple
- a plain rectangular brick building
- clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment
- the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields
- it is plain that he is no reactionary
Adverb - 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 apparently been living here for some time
- I thought he owned the property, but apparently not
Noun - extensive tract of level open land
- they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain
- he longed for the fields of his youth
Verb - express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness
- My mother complains all day
- She has a lot to kick about
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