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plain
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 7 senses (first 6 from tagged texts)
1. (9) apparent, evident, manifest, patent, plain, unmistakable -- (clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment; "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, bare, spare, unembellished, unornamented -- (lacking embellishment or ornamentation; "a plain hair style"; "unembellished white walls"; "functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete")
7. 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 (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly'); "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"; "he is plain stubborn")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun plain
2 senses of plain
Sense 1
plain, field, champaign
=> land, dry land, earth, ground, solid ground, terra firma
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 2
knit, knit stitch, plain, plain stitch
=> knitting stitch
=> stitch
=> sewing, stitchery
=> needlework, needlecraft
=> creation
=> artifact, artefact
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun plain
1 of 2 senses of plain
Sense 1
plain, field, champaign
HAS INSTANCE=> Olympia
HAS INSTANCE=> Nullarbor Plain
HAS INSTANCE=> Serengeti, Serengeti Plain
=> flat
=> floodplain, flood plain
=> llano
=> moor, moorland
=> peneplain, peneplane
=> snowfield
=> steppe
=> tundra
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun plain
2 senses of plain
Sense 1
plain, field, champaign
=> land, dry land, earth, ground, solid ground, terra firma
Sense 2
knit, knit stitch, plain, plain stitch
=> knitting stitch
Antonyms of noun plain
Member Holonyms of noun plain
Substance Holonyms of noun plain
Part Holonyms of noun plain
Member Meronyms of noun plain
Substance Meronyms of noun plain
Part Meronyms of noun plain
Meronyms of noun plain
Holonyms of noun plain
Attributes of noun plain
Derived Forms of noun plain
Domain of noun plain
Domain Terms of noun plain
Familiarity of noun plain
plain used as a noun is rare (polysemy count =2)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun plain
2 senses of plain
Sense 1
plain, field, champaign
> land, dry land, earth, ground, solid ground, terra firma
HAS INSTANCE=> America
=> archipelago
=> beachfront
=> cape, ness
=> coastal plain
=> floor
=> foreland
=> forest, woodland, timberland, timber
=> island
=> isthmus
=> landmass
=> mainland
=> neck
=> oxbow
=> peninsula
=> plain, field, champaign
=> slash
=> wonderland
Sense 2
knit, knit stitch, plain, plain stitch
> knitting stitch
=> garter stitch
=> knit, knit stitch, plain, plain stitch
=> purl, purl stitch
=> stockinette stitch
Meronyms of noun plain
2 senses of plain
Sense 2
knit, knit stitch, plain, plain stitch
=> knitting stitch
=> stitch
=> sewing, stitchery
=> needlework, needlecraft
=> creation
=> artifact, artefact
=> whole, unit
HAS PART: part, portion
HAS PART: section, segment
Holonyms of noun plain
Grep of noun plain
champlain
chaplain
coastal plain
flood plain
floodplain
hospital chaplain
lake champlain
military chaplain
nullarbor plain
peneplain
plain
plain clothes
plain flour
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
serengeti plain
Antonyms of verb plain
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb plain
1 sense of plain
Sense 1
complain, kick, plain, sound off, quetch, kvetch
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, crab, beef, squawk, bellyache, holler
=> rail, inveigh
=> deplore, lament, bewail, bemoan
=> report
=> bleat
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb plain
1 sense of plain
Sense 1
complain, kick, plain, sound off, quetch, kvetch
'Cause To' of verb plain
Derived Forms of verb plain
Domain of verb plain
Domain Terms of verb plain
Familiarity of verb plain
plain used as a verb is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Sample Sentences of verb plain
1 sense of plain
Sense 1
complain, kick, plain, sound off, quetch, kvetch
*> Somebody ----s
*> Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb plain
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb plain
Sense 1
complain, kick, plain, sound off, quetch, kvetch
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Grep of verb plain
complain
explain
plain
re-explain
Antonyms of adj plain
7 senses of plain
Sense 1
apparent, evident, manifest, patent, plain, unmistakable
INDIRECT (VIA obvious) -> unobvious
Sense 2
plain (vs. fancy)
fancy (vs. plain)
=> aureate, florid, flamboyant
=> baroque, churrigueresque, churrigueresco
=> busy, fussy
=> dressy
=> crackle
=> damascene
=> damask
=> elaborate, luxuriant
=> embattled, battlemented, castled, castellated, crenelated, crenellated, crenelate, crenellate, indented
=> fanciful
=> fantastic
=> garnished
=> lacy, lacelike
=> puff, puffed
=> rococo
=> vermicular, vermiculate, vermiculated
Sense 3
plain (vs. patterned), unpatterned
patterned (vs. plain)
=> banded
=> black-and-tan
=> black-barred
=> black-marked
=> blotched, blotchy, splotched
=> brindled, brindle, brinded, tabby
=> brown-speckled, brownish-speckled
=> brown-striped, brownish-striped
=> burled
=> checked, checkered, chequered
=> cross-banded
=> dappled, mottled
=> dark-spotted
=> dotted, flecked, specked, speckled, stippled
=> figured
=> floral, flowered
=> freckled, lentiginous, lentiginose
=> laced
=> marbled, marbleized, marbleised
=> maroon-spotted
=> moire, watered
=> patched, spotty, spotted, black-and-white
=> pointilist, pointillistic
=> pinstriped
=> purple-veined
=> purple-spotted
=> red-striped, reddish-striped, red-streaked
=> ringed
=> slashed
=> sprigged
=> streaked, streaky
=> striped, stripy
=> tessellated
=> tiger-striped
=> veined, venose, veinlike
=> violet-streaked
=> white-blotched
=> white-ribbed
=> white-streaked
=> yellow-banded
=> yellow-marked
=> yellow-spotted
=> yellow-striped
Sense 4
plain, sheer, unmingled, unmixed
INDIRECT (VIA pure) -> impure
Sense 5
plain, unvarnished
INDIRECT (VIA direct) -> indirect
Sense 6
plain, bare, spare, unembellished, unornamented
INDIRECT (VIA unadorned) -> adorned, decorated
Sense 7
homely, plain
INDIRECT (VIA unattractive) -> attractive
Similarity of adj plain
7 senses of plain
Sense 1
apparent, evident, manifest, patent, plain, unmistakable
=> obvious (vs. unobvious)
Sense 2
plain (vs. fancy)
=> austere, severe, stark, stern
=> bare(prenominal), mere(prenominal), simple(prenominal)
=> chaste
=> dry
=> dry
=> featureless
=> homely
=> inelaborate, unelaborate
=> literal
=> simple
=> tailored, trim
=> vanilla
Also See> simple#1; unadorned#1, undecorated#1; unrhetorical#1; unpretentious#1
Sense 3
plain (vs. patterned), unpatterned
=> solid-colored, solid-coloured
Sense 4
plain, sheer, unmingled, unmixed
=> pure (vs. impure)
Sense 5
plain, unvarnished
=> direct (vs. indirect)
Sense 6
plain, bare, spare, unembellished, unornamented
=> unadorned (vs. adorned), undecorated
Sense 7
homely, plain
=> unattractive (vs. attractive)
Pertainyms of adj plain
Attributes of adj plain
Domain of adj plain
Domain Terms of adj plain
Familiarity of adj plain
plain used as an adjective is common (polysemy count =7)
Grep of adj plain
plain
plain-woven
plainspoken
plaintive
Antonyms of adv plain
Synonyms of adv plain
1 sense of plain
Sense 1
obviously, evidently, manifestly, patently, apparently, plainly, plain
Pertainyms of adv plain
Domain of adv plain
1 sense of plain
Sense 1
obviously, evidently, manifestly, patently, apparently, plainly, plain
USAGE>(noun) colloquialism#1
Domain Terms of adv plain
Familiarity of adv plain
plain used as an adverb is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Grep of adv plain
plain
plainly
plaintively
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