plain
/pleɪn/ adjective B1- Ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation; unembellished. · He was dressed simply in plain black clothes.· a plain tune
- Of just one colour; lacking a pattern. · a plain pink polycotton skirt
- Simple in habits or qualities; unsophisticated, not exceptional, ordinary. · They're just plain people like you or me.
- Having only few ingredients, or no additional ingredients or seasonings; not elaborate, without toppings or extras. · Would you like a poppy bagel or a plain bagel?
- Containing no extended or nonprinting characters (especially in plain text).
- Evident to one's senses or reason; manifest, clear, unmistakable.
- Downright; total, unmistakable (as intensifier). · His answer was just plain nonsense.
- Honest and without deception; candid, open; blunt. · Let me be plain with you: I don't like her.
Comparative plainer · Superlative plainest
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She wanted to, so I let her; but I’m sure I could have found something more poetical than plain Birch Path.
The Ass, as long as he traveled along the plain, carried his load with ease, but when he began to ascend the steep path of the mountain, felt his load to be more than he could bear.
One of them, turning about, said to him: “That is the very reason why we are so cautious; for if you yesterday treated us better than the Goats you have had so long, it is plain also that if others came after us, you would in the same manner prefer them to ourselves.”
“No, monsieur, I do not know the writing, and yet it is tolerably plain.
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