Noun | 1. | ![]() |
2. | plain - a basic knitting stitch | |
Verb | 1. | plain - express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness; "My mother complains all day"; "She has a lot to kick about" |
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" |
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" | |
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" |
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). |