plain
adjective
- 1
Flat, level.
- 2
Simple.
- 3
Obvious.
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Open.
- 5
Not unusually beautiful; unattractive.
“Throughout high school she worried that she had a rather plain face.”
- 6
Not a trump.
Synonyms
adverb
- 1
Simply.
“I plain forgot.”
- 2
Plainly; distinctly.
“Tell me plain: do you love me or no?”
noun
- 1
A lamentation.
verb
- 1
To complain.
- 2
To lament, bewail.
“to plain a loss”
noun
- 1
A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.
“There are several species of wild flowers growing in this field.”
- 2
A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals.
“A crop circle was made in a corn field.”
- 3
A place where competitive matches are carried out.
- 4
Any of various figurative meanings, regularly dead metaphors.
noun
- 1
An expanse of land with relatively low relief, usually exclusive of forests, deserts, and wastelands.
verb
- 1
To level; to raze; to make plain or even on the surface.
- 2
To make plain or manifest; to explain.
noun
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A level or flat surface.
- 2
A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane).
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A level of existence or development. (eg, astral plane)
- 4
A roughly flat, thin, often moveable structure used to create lateral force by the flow of air or water over its surface, found on aircraft, submarines, etc.
- 5
(Unicode) Any of a number of designated ranges of sequential code points.
- 6
An imaginary plane which divides the body into two portions.
noun
- 1
A tool for smoothing wood by removing thin layers from the surface.
noun
- 1
An airplane; an aeroplane.
- 2
Any of various nymphalid butterflies, of various genera, having a slow gliding flight. Also called aeroplanes.
- 3
The butterfly Bindahara phocides, family Lycaenidae, of Asia and Australasia.
noun
- 1
A deciduous tree of the genus Platanus.
- 2
(Northern UK) A sycamore.
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