DICTOMETER

PLAIN

1. Synonyms:
   • Plain
   • Field
   • Champaign
   Definitions:
   • extensive tract of level open land
   Examples:
   • They emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain
   • He longed for the fields of his youth
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Knit
   • Knit stitch
   • Plain
   • Plain stitch
   Definitions:
   • a basic knitting stitch
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Complain
   • Kick
   • Plain
   • Sound off
   • Quetch
   • Kvetch
   Definitions:
   • express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness
   Examples:
   • My mother complains all day
   • She has a lot to kick about
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Apparent
   • Evident
   • Manifest
   • Patent
   • Plain
   • Unmistakable
   Definitions:
   • clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment
   Examples:
   • 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
   Antonyms:
   • Unobvious
   
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Plain
   Definitions:
   • not elaborate or elaborated
   • simple
   Examples:
   • Plain food
   • Stuck to the plain facts
   • A plain blue suit
   • A plain rectangular brick building
   Antonyms:
   • FANCY
   • aureate, florid, flamboyant
   • baroque, churrigueresque, churrigueresco
   • busy, fussy
   • dressy
   • crackle
   • damascene
   • damask
   • elaborate, luxuriant
   • embattled, battlemented, castled, castellated
   • fanciful
   • fantastic
   • lacy, lacelike
   • puff, puffed
   • rococo
   • vermicular, vermiculate, vermiculated
   
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Plain
   • Unpatterned
   Definitions:
   • lacking patterns especially in color
   Antonyms:
   • IN
   • banded
   • black-and-tan
   • black-barred
   • black-marked
   • blotched, blotchy, splotched
   • brindled, brindle, brinded, tabby
   • brown-speckled, brownish-speckled
   • brown-striped, brownish-striped
   • burled
   • checked, checkered, chequered
   • cross-banded
   • dappled, mottled
   • dark-spotted
   • dotted, flecked, specked, speckled, stippled
   • figured
   • floral, flowered
   • freckled, lentiginous, lentiginose
   • laced
   • marbled, marbleized, marbleised
   • maroon-spotted
   • moire, watered
   • patched, spotty, spotted
   • pointillist, pointillistic
   • pinstriped
   • purple-veined
   • purple-spotted
   • red-striped, reddish-striped, red-streaked
   • ringed
   • slashed
   • sprigged
   • streaked, streaky
   • striped, stripy
   • tessellated
   • tiger-striped
   • veined, venose, veinlike
   • violet-streaked
   • white-blotched
   • white-ribbed
   • white-streaked
   • yellow-banded
   • yellow-marked
   • yellow-spotted
   • yellow-striped
   
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Plain
   • Sheer
   • Unmingled
   • Unmixed
   Definitions:
   • not mixed with extraneous elements
   Examples:
   • Plain water
   • Sheer wine
   • Not an unmixed blessing
   Antonyms:
   • Impure
   
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Plain
   • Unvarnished
   Definitions:
   • free from any effort to soften to disguise
   Examples:
   • The plain and unvarnished truth
   • The unvarnished candor of old people and children
   Antonyms:
   • Indirect
   
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Plain
   • Bare
   • Spare
   • Unembellished
   • Unornamented
   Definitions:
   • lacking embellishment or ornamentation
   Examples:
   • A plain hair style
   • Unembellished white walls
   • Functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete
   Antonyms:
   • Adorned
   • Decorated
   
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Homely
   • Plain
   Definitions:
   • lacking in physical beauty or proportion
   Examples:
   • A homely child
   • Several of the buildings were downright homely
   • A plain girl with a freckled face
   Antonyms:
   • Attractive
   
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Obviously
   • Evidently
   • Manifestly
   • Patently
   • Apparently
   • Plainly
   • Plain
   Definitions:
   • unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly')
   Examples:
   • 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