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Pronunciation


Homophones


Etymology 1

From #French|plain, from planus.

Adjective

  1. ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation.
  2. containing no non-printing characters; ASCII code values 32 through 126.


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Translations
  • Arabic:
  • Chinese: 平的 (píng de)
  • Dutch:
  • Finnish: ,
  • French:
  • German:
  • Hungarian:
  • Italian:
  • Japanese: 質素な (しっそな, shissona)
  • Korean: 소박한 (sobakhan)
  • Kurdish:
  • : Sorani: {{t-|ku|ساده|tr=sAda|sc=KUchar}}
  • Portuguese:
  • Russian: {{t+|ru|простой|tr=prostój|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Spanish:
  • Swedish:
  • Japanese: 平 (hira)

Etymology 2

From #French|plain, from planum.

Noun

  1. An expanse of land with relatively low relief.
  2. * 1961: J. A. Philip. Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato. In: Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92. p. 467.
  3. *: For Plato the life of the philosopher is a life of struggle towards the goal of knowledge, towards “searching the heavens and measuring the plains, in all places seeking the nature of everything as a whole”


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Translations
  • Dutch:
  • Japanese: 平地 (heichi)
  • Portuguese: {{t|pt|planície|f}}

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French

Etymology

From planus.

Pronunciation


Homophones


Adjective

plain

  1. plane


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Romansch

Etymology

From plenus.

Adjective

plain

  1. full


Category:Romansch adjectives

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Plain \Plain\, v. i. [OE. playne, pleyne, fr. F. plaindre. See
Plaint.]
To lament; to bewail; to complain. [Archaic & Poetic]
--Milton.
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We with piteous heart unto you pleyne. --Chaucer.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Plain \Plain\, v. t.
To lament; to mourn over; as, to plain a loss. [Archaic &
Poetic] --Sir J. Harrington.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Plain \Plain\, a. [Compar. Plainer; superl. Plainest.] [F.,
level, flat, fr. L. planus, perhaps akin to E. floor. Cf.
Llano, Piano, Plan, Plane level, a level surface.]
1. Without elevations or depressions; flat; level; smooth;
even. See Plane.
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The crooked shall be made straight, and the rough
places plain. --Isa. xl. 4.
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2. Open; clear; unencumbered; equal; fair.
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Our troops beat an army in plain fight. --Felton.
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3. Not intricate or difficult; evident; manifest; obvious;
clear; unmistakable. "'T is a plain case." --Shak.
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4.
(a) Void of extraneous beauty or ornament; without
conspicious embellishment; not rich; simple.
(b) Not highly cultivated; unsophisticated; free from show
or pretension; simple; natural; homely; common. "Plain
yet pious Christians." --Hammond. "The plain people."
--A. Lincoln.
(c) Free from affectation or disguise; candid; sincere;
artless; honest; frank. "An honest mind, and plain."
--Shak.
(d) Not luxurious; not highly seasoned; simple; as, plain
food.
(e) Without beauty; not handsome; homely; as, a plain
woman.
(f) Not variegated, dyed, or figured; as, plain muslin.
(g) Not much varied by modulations; as, a plain tune.
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Plain battle, open battle; pitched battle. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.

Plain chant (Mus.) Same as Plain song, below.

Plain chart (Naut.), a chart laid down on Mercator's
projection.

Plain dealer.
(a) One who practices plain dealing.
(b) A simpleton. [Obs.] --Shak.

Plain dealing. See under Dealing.

Plain molding (Join.), molding of which the surfaces are
plain figures.

Plain sewing, sewing of seams by simple and common
stitches, in distinct from fancy work, embroidery, etc.;
-- distinguished also from designing and fitting garments.


Plain song.
(a) The Gregorian chant, or canto fermo; the prescribed
melody of the Roman Catholic service, sung in unison,
in tones of equal length, and rarely extending beyond
the compass of an octave.
(b) A simple melody.

Plain speaking, plainness or bluntness of speech.
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Syn: Level; flat; smooth; open; artless; unaffected;
undisguised; frank; sincere; honest; candid; ingenuous;
unembellished; downright; blunt; clear; simple;
distinct; manifest; obvious; apparent. See Manifest.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Plain \Plain\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plained; p. pr. & vb. n.
Plaining.] [Cf. Plane, v.]
1. To plane or level; to make plain or even on the surface.
[R.]
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We would rake Europe rather, plain the East.
--Wither.
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2. To make plain or manifest; to explain.
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What's dumb in show, I'll plain in speech. --Shak.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Plain \Plain\, adv.
In a plain manner; plainly. "To speak short and pleyn."
--Chaucer. "To tell you plain." --Shak.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Plain \Plain\, n. [Cf. OF. plaigne, F. plaine. See Plain, a.]
1. Level land; usually, an open field or a broad stretch of
land with an even surface, or a surface little varied by
inequalities; as, the plain of Jordan; the American
plains, or prairies.
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Descending fro the mountain into playn. --Chaucer.
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Him the Ammonite
Worshiped in Rabba and her watery plain. --Milton.
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2. A field of battle. [Obs.] --Arbuthnot.
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Lead forth my soldiers to the plain. --Shak.
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WordNet 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 (`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" [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]
Moby Dictionary
Attic , Bohemian , Ciceronian , Lebensraum , Mickey Mouse , Spartan ,
abrupt , absolute , absolutely , affable , agricultural region ,
air space , all-embracing , all-encompassing , all-out , all-pervading ,
apparent , arable land , articulate , artless , ascetic , audible ,
austere , back country , bald , bare , baseborn , basic , beautiless ,
below the salt , billiard table , black belt , blemished , blotted ,
bluff , blunt , born , born yesterday , bowling green , broad ,
broad-based , brusque , cacophonic , cacophonous , campestral ,
campestrian , campo , candid , casual , champaign , chaste , cheerful ,
childlike , citrus belt , classic , classical , clean , clean-cut ,
clear , clear as crystal , clear as day , clear space , clear-cut ,
clearance , clearing , cockney , coherent , colorless , comfortable ,
common , commonplace , comprehensive , confiding , congenital ,
connected , consistent , conspicuous , consummate , contrastive ,
cordial , corn belt , cotton belt , countryside , cozy , crisp ,
crystal-clear , crystalline , cushy , dead flat , dead level ,
deep-dyed , defaced , defined , definite , degage , desert , direct ,
discernible , discreet , disfigured , distant prospect , distinct ,
distinctive , down , downright , drab , dry , dull , dust bowl ,
dyed-in-the-wool , dysphemistic , dysphemized , earth , easy ,
easy as pie , easygoing , effortless , egregious , elegant , elementary ,
empty view , esplanade , essential , even , everyday , evident ,
exhaustive , explicit , express , facile , familiar , farm belt ,
farm country , farmland , featureless , finished , flat , flatland ,
flattened , floor , flush , folksy , forthright , frank , frankhearted ,
free , free and easy , free-speaking , free-spoken , free-tongued ,
friendly , fruit belt , fundamental , garden , garden-variety , genuine ,
glade , glaring , glib , graceful , gracile , gracious , graphic ,
grass roots , grassland , grazing region , ground , guileless , haymish ,
hearable , heart-to-heart , heath , hi-fi , high-fidelity , highlands ,
homaloid , homaloidal , homelike , homely , homespun , homey , homish ,
homogeneous , honest , horizontal , horizontal axis , horizontal fault ,
horizontal line , horizontal parallax , horizontal plane ,
horizontal projection , household , humble , humble-looking ,
humble-visaged , humblest , humdrum , ill-favored , in focus ,
indisputable , indivisible , indubitable , inelegant , informal ,
ingenu , ingenuous , inglorious , innocent , innocuous , insipid ,
intelligible , intensive , intimate , irreducible , irregular ,
irretrievably , irrevocably , lean , least , ledge , legible , level ,
level line , level plane , light , limpid , living space , llano , loose ,
loud and clear , low , lowborn , lowbred , lowest , lowlands , lowliest ,
lowly , lucid , luminous , manifest , marred , matter-of-fact , mead ,
meadows and pastures , mean , mean sea level , mere , modest ,
monolithic , moor , moorland , moors , mundane , muted , naive , natural ,
neat , nonclerical , nondescript , nothing to it , noticeable ,
observable , obvious , of a piece , offhand , offhanded , omnibus ,
omnipresent , open , open country , open space , open-and-shut ,
openhearted , ordinary , out-and-out , outback , outright , outspoken ,
painless , palpable , pampas , parterre , pasture , patent , peaceful ,
pedestrian , pellucid , perceivable , perceptible , perfect , perfectly ,
perspicuous , pervasive , plain as day , plain-speaking , plain-spoken ,
plains , plane , plateau , platform , plebeian , plumb , poetryless ,
polished , poor , prairie , prairies , primal , primary , prominent ,
pronounced , prosaic , prose , prosing , prosy , province , provinces ,
pure , pure and simple , quite , radical , refined , regular , relaxed ,
restrained , right , rolled , round , rude , rural district , rustic ,
rustic region , savanna , sea level , sea of grass , seeable ,
self-evident , self-explaining , self-explanatory , severe ,
shabby-genteel , sheer , short , short on looks , simon-pure , simple ,
simple as ABC , simple-speaking , simplehearted , simpleminded ,
sincere , single , single-hearted , single-minded , small , smooth ,
smoothed out , smoothened , snug , sober , sociable , soft , spare ,
spartan , spoiled , squashed , squashed flat , staring , stark , steppe ,
steppes , straight , straight-out , straightforward , sweeping , table ,
tabloid , tabular , tangible , tasteful , teachable , terrace , terrain ,
territory , terse , the country , the soil , the sticks , third-estate ,
thorough , thoroughgoing , through-and-through , tiresome , to be seen ,
tobacco belt , total , translucent , transparent , transpicuous , trim ,
trodden , trodden flat , trustful , trusting , tundra , ubiquitous ,
uglified , ugly , ugly as hell , ugly as sin , unadorned ,
unadulterated , unaesthetic , unaffected , unalluring , unambiguous ,
unassuming , unattractive , unbeauteous , unbeautiful , unburdensome ,
unceremonious , unchecked , uncluttered , uncomely , uncomplicated ,
unconcealed , unconditional , unconfused , uncon
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