Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb plain
1 sense of plain
Sense 1
complain, kick, plain, sound off quetch, kvetch
=> nag, peck, hen-peck
=> backbite, bitch
=> whine, grizzle, yammer, yawp
=> murmur, mutter, grumble, croak, gnarl
=> grouch, grumble, scold
=> protest
=> repine
=> gripe, grouse, beef, squawk, bellyache, holler
=> rail, inveigh
=> deplore, lament, bewail, bemoan, regret
=> report
=> bleat
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb plain
1 sense of plain
Sense 1
complain, kick, plain, sound off quetch, kvetch
=> nag, peck, hen-peck
=> backbite, bitch
=> whine, grizzle, yammer, yawp
=> murmur, mutter, grumble, croak, gnarl
=> grouch, grumble, scold
=> protest
=> repine
=> gripe, grouse, beef, squawk, bellyache, holler
=> rail, inveigh
=> deplore, lament, bewail, bemoan, regret
=> report
=> bleat
Entailment of verb plain
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Frequency) of verb plain
1 sense of plain
Sense 1
complain, kick, plain, sound off quetch, kvetch
Familiarity of verb plain
plain used as a verb is very rare (polysemy count = 1)
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb plain
Sense 1
complain, kick, plain, sound off quetch, kvetch
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Grep of noun plain
champlain
chaplain
coastal plain
hospital chaplain
lake champlain
military chaplain
plain
plain chocolate
plain clothes
plain people
plain sailing
plain stitch
plain turkey
plain wanderer
plain weave
plainchant
plainclothesman
plainness
plains indian
plains lemon monarda
plains pocket gopher
plains pocket mouse
plains spadefoot
plainsman
plainsong
plaint
plaintiff
plaintiff in error
plaintiveness
prison chaplain
salt plain
samuel de champlain
Overview of noun plain
The noun plain has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) plain, field, champaign -- (extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of his youth")
2. knit, knit stitch, plain, plain stitch -- (a basic knitting stitch)
Overview of verb plain
The verb plain has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. complain, kick, plain, sound off quetch, kvetch -- (express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness; "My mother complains all day"; "She has a lot to kick about")
Overview of adj plain
The adj plain has 9 senses (first 6 from tagged texts)
1. (9) apparent, evident, manifest, patent, plain -- (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")
2. (1) plain -- (not elaborate or elaborated; simple; "plain food"; "stuck to the plain facts"; "a plain blue suit"; "a plain rectangular brick building")
3. (1) plain, unpatterned -- (lacking patterns especially in color)
4. (1) plain, sheer, unmingled, unmixed -- (not mixed with extraneous elements; "plain water"; "sheer wine"; "not an unmixed blessing")
5. (1) plain, unvarnished -- (free from any effort to soften to disguise; "the plain and unvarnished truth"; "the unvarnished candor of old people and children")
6. (1) plain, unembellished, unornamented -- (lacking embellishment or ornamentation; "a plain hair style"; "unembellished white walls"; "functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete")
7. literal, plain, unembellished -- (lacking stylistic embellishment; "a literal description"; "wrote good but plain prose"; "a plain unadorned account of the coronation"; "a forthright unembellished style")
8. plain, popular -- (comprehensible to the general public; "written for the popular press in plain nontechnical language")
9. homely, plain -- (lacking in physical beauty or proportion; "a homely child"; "several of the buildings were downright homely"; "a plain girl with a freckled face")
Overview of adv plain
The adv plain has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. obviously, evidently, manifestly, patently, apparently, plainly, plain -- (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"))
Antonyms of adj plain
9 senses of plain
Sense 1
apparent, evident, manifest, patent, plain
INDIRECT (VIA obvious) -> unobvious
Sense 2
plain (vs. fancy)
fancy (vs. plain)
=> aureate, florid, flamboyant, showy
=> baroque, churrigueresque, churrigueresco
=> busy, fussy
=> battlemented, castellated, castled, crenelated, crenellated
=> dressy
=> crackle
=> damascene, damascened
=> damask
=> elaborate, luxuriant
=> embattled, crenelated, crenelate, crenellated, crenellate, indented
=> fanciful
=> garnished
=> lacy, lacelike
=> rich
=> rococo
=> vermicular, vermiculate, vermiculated
=> puff, puffed
Sense 3
plain (vs. patterned), unpatterned
patterned (vs. plain)
=> banded
=> blotched, blotchy, splotched
=> brindled, brindle, brinded, tabby
=> burled
=> checked, checkered, chequered
=> dappled, mottled
=> dotted, flecked, specked, speckled, stippled
=> figured
=> floral, flowered
=> freckled, lentiginous, lentiginose
=> laced
=> marbled, marbleized, marbleised
=> moire, watered
=> patched, spotted
=> pinstriped, pinstripe(postnominal)
=> pointilist, pointilistic
=> slashed
=> patched, spotted
=> sprigged
=> streaked, streaky
=> striped, stripy
=> tessellated
=> veined, venose, veinlike
Sense 4
plain, sheer, unmingled, unmixed
INDIRECT (VIA pure) -> impure
Sense 5
plain, unvarnished
INDIRECT (VIA direct) -> indirect
Sense 6
plain, unembellished, unornamented
INDIRECT (VIA unadorned) -> adorned, decorated
Sense 7
literal, plain, unembellished
INDIRECT (VIA unrhetorical) -> rhetorical
Sense 8
plain, popular
INDIRECT (VIA general, nonspecific) -> specific
Sense 9
homely, plain
INDIRECT (VIA unattractive) -> attractive
Similarity of adj plain
9 senses of plain
Sense 1
apparent, evident, manifest, patent, plain
=> obvious (vs. unobvious)
Sense 2
plain (vs. fancy)
=> austere, severe, stark
=> bare(postnominal), mere(postnominal), simple(postnominal)
=> dry
=> dry
=> featureless
=> homely
=> inelaborate, unelaborate
=> literal, pure and simple
=> tailored, trim
=> chaste
=> simple
Also See-> simple#1; unadorned#1, undecorated#1; unrhetorical#1; unpretentious#1
Sense 3
plain (vs. patterned), unpatterned
=> solid, self-colored, self-coloured
Sense 4
plain, sheer, unmingled, unmixed
=> pure (vs. impure)
Sense 5
plain, unvarnished
=> direct (vs. indirect)
Sense 6
plain, unembellished, unornamented
=> unadorned (vs. adorned), undecorated
Sense 7
literal, plain, unembellished
=> unrhetorical (vs. rhetorical)
Sense 8
plain, popular
=> general (vs. specific)
Sense 9
homely, plain
=> unattractive (vs. attractive)
Attributes of adj plain
Familiarity of adj plain
plain used as an adjective is familiar (polysemy count = 9)
Grep of adj plain
plain
plain-woven
plainspoken
plaintive
Overview of noun plain
The noun plain has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) plain, field, champaign -- (extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of his youth")
2. knit, knit stitch, plain, plain stitch -- (a basic knitting stitch)
Overview of verb plain
The verb plain has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. complain, kick, plain, sound off quetch, kvetch -- (express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness; "My mother complains all day"; "She has a lot to kick about")
Overview of adj plain
The adj plain has 9 senses (first 6 from tagged texts)
1. (9) apparent, evident, manifest, patent, plain -- (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")
2. (1) plain -- (not elaborate or elaborated; simple; "plain food"; "stuck to the plain facts"; "a plain blue suit"; "a plain rectangular brick building")
3. (1) plain, unpatterned -- (lacking patterns especially in color)
4. (1) plain, sheer, unmingled, unmixed -- (not mixed with extraneous elements; "plain water"; "sheer wine"; "not an unmixed blessing")
5. (1) plain, unvarnished -- (free from any effort to soften to disguise; "the plain and unvarnished truth"; "the unvarnished candor of old people and children")
6. (1) plain, unembellished, unornamented -- (lacking embellishment or ornamentation; "a plain hair style"; "unembellished white walls"; "functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete")
7. literal, plain, unembellished -- (lacking stylistic embellishment; "a literal description"; "wrote good but plain prose"; "a plain unadorned account of the coronation"; "a forthright unembellished style")
8. plain, popular -- (comprehensible to the general public; "written for the popular press in plain nontechnical language")
9. homely, plain -- (lacking in physical beauty or proportion; "a homely child"; "several of the buildings were downright homely"; "a plain girl with a freckled face")
Overview of adv plain
The adv plain has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. obviously, evidently, manifestly, patently, apparently, plainly, plain -- (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"))
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