plain

Adjective

• lacking in physical beauty or proportion
  • a homely child
    
  • several of the buildings were downright homely
    
  • a plain girl with a freckled face
    

• lacking embellishment or ornamentation
  • a plain hair style
    
  • 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
  • plain water
    
  • sheer wine
    
  • not an unmixed blessing
    

• lacking patterns especially in color

• not elaborate or elaborated; simple
  • plain food
    
  • stuck to the plain facts
    
  • a plain blue suit
    
  • 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
    
  • evident hostility
    
  • manifest disapproval
    
  • patent advantages
    
  • made his meaning plain
    
  • it is plain that he is no reactionary
    
  • in plain view
    

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
    
  • You are plainly wrong
    
  • he is plain stubborn
    

Noun

• a basic knitting stitch

• 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  homely , bare , spare , unembellished , unornamented , unvarnished , sheer , unmingled , unmixed , unpatterned , apparent , evident , manifest , patent , unmistakable , obviously , evidently , manifestly , patently , apparently , plainly , knit , knit stitch , plain stitch , field , champaign , complain , ki
• Antonyms: 
  patterned , fancy , cheer , cheer up , chirk up