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Definition of Plain |
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Plain
To lament; to bewail; to complain. To lament; to mourn over; as, to plain a loss. Without elevations or depressions; flat; level; smooth; even. See Plane. Open; clear; unencumbered; equal; fair. Not intricate or difficult; evident; manifest; obvious; clear; unmistakable. Void of extraneous beauty or ornament; without conspicious embellishment; not rich; simple. Not highly cultivated; unsophisticated; free from show or pretension; simple; natural; homely; common. Free from affectation or disguise; candid; sincere; artless; honest; frank. Not luxurious; not highly seasoned; simple; as, plain food. Without beauty; not handsome; homely; as, a plain woman. Not variegated, dyed, or figured; as, plain muslin. Not much varied by modulations; as, a plain tune. In a plain manner; plainly. 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. A field of battle. To plane or level; to make plain or even on the surface. To make plain or manifest; to explain. Related Definitions: Affectation, American, An, Artless, As, Battle, Beauty, Bewail, Broad, By, Candid, Clear, Common, Complain, Cultivated, Difficult, Disguise, Dyed, Embellishment, Equal, Even, Evident, Explain, Extraneous, Fair, Field, Figured, Flat, Food, Frank, Free, From, Handsome, Highly, Homely, Honest, In, Inequalities, Intricate, Jordan, Lament, Land, Level, Little, Loss, Luxurious, Make, Manifest, Manner, Mourn, Much, Muslin, Natural, Not, Obvious, Of, On, Open, Or, Ornament, Over, Plain, Plainly, Plane, Pretension, Rich, Seasoned, See, Show, Simple, Sincere, Smooth, Stretch, Surface, The, To, Tune, Unmistakable, Unsophisticated, Varied, Variegated, Void, With, Without, Woman |
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Plain Quotations
Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong. Muhammad Ali God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean. Albert Einstein Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. Henry David Thoreau Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. Ralph Waldo Emerson No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby. H. L. Mencken |
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Plain Translations
plain in Afrikaans is helder plain in Danish is tydelig, slette, klar plain in Dutch is vlakte plain in French is unie, net, plaine plain in Italian is pianura, piano, modesto plain in Latin is rectus, campus, evidens, directus plain in Norwegian is klar plain in Spanish is llanura, llano, llana |
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