Plain

v. i.

To lament; to bewail; to complain.

We with piteous heart unto you pleyne.

- Chaucer.

v. t.

To lament; to mourn over; as, to plain a loss.

Without elevations or depressions; flat; level; smooth; even. See Plane.

The crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain.

- Isa. xl. 4.

Open; clear; unencumbered; equal; fair.

Our troops beat an army in plain fight.

- Felton.

Not intricate or difficult; evident; manifest; obvious; clear; unmistakable.

Void of extraneous beauty or ornament; without conspicious embellishment; not rich; simple.

Plain battle
open battle; pitched battle.

Plain chant
(Mus.) Same as Plain song, below. - Chaucer.

Plain chart
(Naut.) a chart laid down on Mercator's projection.

Plain dealer
a -	One who practices plain dealing
b -	A simpleton

Plain dealing
See under Dealing. - Shak.

Plain molding
(Join.) molding of which the surfaces are plain figures.

Plain sewing
sewing of seams by simple and common stitches, in distinct from fancy work, embroidery, etc.; - distinguished also from designing and fitting garments.

Plain song
a -	The Gregorian chant, or canto fermo; the prescribed melody of the Roman Catholic service, sung in unison, in tones of equal length, and rarely extending beyond the compass of an octave
b -	A simple melody.

Plain speaking
plainness or bluntness of speech.

adv.

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.

Descending fro the mountain into playn.

- Chaucer.

Him the Ammonite
Worshiped in Rabba and her watery plain.

- Milton.

A field of battle.

Lead forth my soldiers to the plain.

- Shak.

v. t.

To plane or level; to make plain or even on the surface.

[imp. & p. p. Plained ( ); p. pr. & vb. n. Plaining.]

We would rake Europe rather, plain the East.

- Wither.

To make plain or manifest; to explain.

What's dumb in show, I'll plain in speech.

- Shak.

Noun	1.	plain - extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of his youth" Synonyms: champaign, field
	2.	plain - a basic knitting stitch Synonyms: knit stitch, plain stitch, knit
Verb	1.	plain - express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness; "My mother complains all day"; "She has a lot to kick about" Synonyms: complain, kvetch, quetch, sound off, kick
Adj.	1.	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" Synonyms: apparent, evident, manifest, patent
	2.	plain - not elaborate or elaborated; simple; "plain food"; "stuck to the plain facts"; "a plain blue suit"; "a plain rectangular brick building" Antonyms: fancy - not plain; decorative or ornamented; "fancy handwriting"; "fancy clothes"
	3.	plain - lacking patterns especially in color Synonyms: unpatterned Antonyms: patterned - having patterns (especially colorful patterns)
	4.	plain - not mixed with extraneous elements; "plain water"; "sheer wine"; "not an unmixed blessing" Synonyms: unmingled, unmixed, sheer
	5.	plain - free from any effort to soften to disguise; "the plain and unvarnished truth"; "the unvarnished candor of old people and children" Synonyms: unvarnished
	6.	plain - lacking embellishment or ornamentation; "a plain hair style"; "unembellished white walls"; "functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete" Synonyms: unornamented, unembellished
	7.	plain - lacking stylistic embellishment; "a literal description"; "wrote good but plain prose"; "a plain unadorned account of the coronation"; "a forthright unembellished style" Synonyms: unembellished, literal
	8.	plain - comprehensible to the general public; "written for the popular press in plain nontechnical language" Synonyms: popular
	9.	plain - lacking in physical beauty or proportion; "a homely child"; "several of the buildings were downright homely"; "a plain girl with a freckled face" Synonyms: homely
Adv.	1.	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: evidently, manifestly, obviously, patently, plainly, apparently

PLAIN - Programming LAnguage for INteraction. Pascal-like, with extensions for database, string handling, exceptions and pattern matching. "Revised Report on the Programming Language PLAIN", A. Wasserman, SIGPLAN Notices 6(5):59-80 (May 1981).

Attic, Bohemian, Ciceronian, Lebensraum, Mickey Mouse, Spartan, abrupt, absolutely, affable, agricultural region, air space, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-out, all-pervading, apparent, arable land, articulate, artless, ascetic, audible, austere, back country, bald, bare, baseborn, basic, beautiless, below the salt, billiard table, black belt, blemished, blotted, bluff, blunt, born, born yesterday, bowling green, broad, broad-based, brusque, cacophonic, cacophonous, campestral, campestrian, campo, casual, champaign, chaste, cheerful, childlike, citrus belt, classic, classical, clean, clean-cut, clear as crystal, clear as day, clear space, clear-cut, clearance, clearing, cockney, coherent, colorless, comfortable, common, commonplace, comprehensive, confiding, congenital, connected, consistent, conspicuous, consummate, contrastive, cordial, corn belt, cotton belt, countryside, cozy, crisp, crystal-clear, crystalline, cushy, dead flat, dead level, deep-dyed, defaced, defined, definite, degage, desert, direct, discernible, discreet, disfigured, distant prospect, distinctive, down, downright, drab, dry, dull, dust bowl, dyed-in-the-wool, dysphemistic, dysphemized, earth, easy, easy as pie, easygoing, effortless, egregious, elegant, elementary, empty view, esplanade, essential, even, everyday, exhaustive, explicit, express, facile, familiar, farm belt, farm country, farmland, featureless, finished, flatland, flattened, floor, flush, folksy, forthright, frankhearted, free, free and easy, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued, friendly, fruit belt, fundamental, garden, garden-variety, genuine, glade, glaring, glib, graceful, gracile, gracious, graphic, grass roots, grassland, grazing region, ground, guileless, haymish, hearable, heart-to-heart, heath, hi-fi, high-fidelity, highlands, homaloid, homaloidal, homelike, homely, homespun, homey, homish, homogeneous, honest, horizontal, horizontal axis, horizontal fault, horizontal line, horizontal parallax, horizontal plane, horizontal projection, household, humble, humble-looking, humble-visaged, humblest, humdrum, ill-favored, in focus, indisputable, indivisible, indubitable, inelegant, informal, ingenu, ingenuous, inglorious, innocent, innocuous, insipid, intelligible, intensive, intimate, irreducible, irregular, irretrievably, irrevocably, lean, least, ledge, legible, level line, level plane, light, limpid, living space, llano, loose, loud and clear, low, lowborn, lowbred, lowest, lowlands, lowliest, lowly, lucid, luminous, manifest, marred, matter-of-fact, mead, meadows and pastures, mean, mean sea level, mere, modest, monolithic, moor, moorland, moors, mundane, muted, naive, natural, neat, nonclerical, nondescript, nothing to it, noticeable, observable, obvious, of a piece, offhand, offhanded, omnibus, omnipresent, open country, open space, open-and-shut, openhearted, out-and-out, outback, outright, outspoken, painless, pampas, parterre, pasture, patent, peaceful, pedestrian, pellucid, perceivable, perceptible, perfect, perfectly, perspicuous, pervasive, plain as day, plain-speaking, plain-spoken, plains, plane, plateau, platform, plebeian, plumb, poetryless, polished, poor, prairie, prairies, primal, primary, prominent, pronounced, prosaic, prose, prosing, prosy, province, provinces, pure, pure and simple, quite, radical, refined, regular, relaxed, restrained, right, rolled, round, rude, rural district, rustic, rustic region, savanna, sea level, sea of grass, seeable, self-evident, self-explaining, self-explanatory, severe, shabby-genteel, sheer, short, short on looks, simon-pure, simple as ABC, simple-speaking, simplehearted, simpleminded, single, single-hearted, single-minded, small, smoothed out, smoothened, snug, sober, sociable, soft, spare, spartan, spoiled, squashed, squashed flat, staring, stark, steppe, steppes, straight, straight-out, straightforward, sweeping, table, tabloid, tabular, tangible, tasteful, teachable, terrace, terrain, territory, terse, the country, the soil, the sticks, third-estate, thorough, thoroughgoing, through-and-through, tiresome, to be seen, tobacco belt, total, translucent, transparent, transpicuous, trim, trodden, trodden flat, trustful, trusting, tundra, ubiquitous, uglified, ugly, ugly as hell, ugly as sin, unadorned, unadulterated, unaesthetic, unaffected, unalluring, unambiguous, unassuming, unattractive, unbeauteous, unbeautiful, unburdensome, unceremonious, unchecked, uncluttered, uncomely, uncomplicated, unconcealed, unconditional, unconfused, unconstrained, unconventional, understandable, undifferenced, undifferentiated, undiluted, undisguised, undissembled, undissembling, undistinguished, unelaborate, unenhanced, unequivocal, unfeigned, ungarnished, ungenteel, unguarded, unhandsome, unidealistic, uniform, unimaginative, unimpassioned, unimportant, universal, univocal, unlabored, unlovely, unluxurious, unmistakable, unmitigated, unmixed, unofficial, unornamented, unostentatious, unpleasing, unpoetic, unpoetical, unpretending, unpretty, unqualified, unrelievedly, unremarkable, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestricted, unromantic, unsightly, unsophisticated, unstudied, unsuspicious, unvarnished, unwary, uplands, utter, vapid, veld, veldt, veritable, vivid, vulgar, water level, well-defined, well-marked, well-pronounced, well-resolved, wheat belt, wholesale, wide-open spaces, wilderness, wold, woodland, woods and fields, workaday, workday, yokeldom

Translate Plain to Spanish, Translate Plain to German, Translate Plain to French