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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") 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 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")
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