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  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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