Plain

To lament; to bewail; to complain.

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

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

Open; clear; unencumbered; equal; fair.

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

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

Not highly cultivated; unsophisticated; free from show or pretension; simple; natural; homely; common.

Free from affectation or disguise; candid; sincere; artless; honest; frank.

Not luxurious; not highly seasoned; simple; as, plain food.

Without beauty; not handsome; homely; as, a plain woman.

Not variegated, dyed, or figured; as, plain muslin.

Not much varied by modulations; as, a plain tune.

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.

A field of battle.

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

To make plain or manifest; to explain.

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"

free from any effort to soften to disguise; "the plain and unvarnished truth"; "the unvarnished candor of old people and children"

extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of his youth"