Definition of Plain

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Definition of Plain

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.

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Plain Quotations

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
Albert Einstein

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
Maya Angelou

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

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

Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.
Katharine Hepburn

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
Katharine Hepburn

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
Karl Marx

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
Jane Austen

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.
William Osler

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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