plain (
http://definr.com/plain)
adj 1: 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 reactionary"; "in
plain view" [syn:
apparent,
evident,
manifest,
patent]
2: not elaborate or elaborated; simple; "plain food"; "stuck to
the plain facts"; "a plain blue suit"; "a plain
rectangular brick building" [ant:
fancy]
3: lacking patterns especially in color [syn:
unpatterned]
[ant:
patterned]
4: not mixed with extraneous elements; "plain water"; "sheer
wine"; "not an unmixed blessing" [syn:
sheer,
unmingled,
unmixed]
5: free from any effort to soften to disguise; "the plain and
unvarnished truth"; "the unvarnished candor of old people
and children" [syn:
unvarnished]
6: lacking embellishment or ornamentation; "a plain hair
style"; "unembellished white walls"; "functional
architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete" [syn:
unembellished,
unornamented]
7: lacking stylistic embellishment; "a literal description";
"wrote good but plain prose"; "a plain unadorned account
of the coronation"; "a forthright unembellished style"
[syn:
literal,
unembellished]
8: comprehensible to the general public; "written for the
popular press in plain nontechnical language" [syn:
popular]
9: lacking in physical beauty or proportion; "a homely child";
"several of the buildings were downright homely"; "a plain
girl with a freckled face" [syn:
homely]
n 1: extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the
woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields
of his youth" [syn:
field,
champaign]
2: a basic knitting stitch [syn:
knit,
knit stitch, {plain
stitch}]
adv : unmistakably; "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"; (`plain'
is often used informally for `plainly' as in "he is
plain stubborn") [syn:
obviously,
evidently,
manifestly,
patently,
apparently,
plainly]
v : express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness;
"My mother complains all day"; "She has a lot to kick
about" [syn:
complain,
kick,
sound off,
quetch,
kvetch]
[ant:
cheer]