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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 -------------- 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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