plain

Meaning

Adj

1. Flat, level.
2. Simple, unaltered.
3. Simple, unaltered.
4. Simple, unaltered.
5. Simple, unaltered.
6. Simple, unaltered.
7. Obvious.
8. Obvious.
9. Open.
10. Open.
11. Not unusually beautiful; unattractive.
12. Not a trump.

Adv

1. (colloquial) Simply.
2. Plainly; distinctly.

Noun

1. An expanse of land with relatively low relief and few trees, especially a grassy expanse.
2. A broad, flat expanse in general, as of water.
3. Synonym of field in reference to a battlefield.
4. (obsolete) Alternative spelling of plane: a flat geometric field.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To level; to raze; to make plain or even on the surface.
2. (obsolete) To make plain or manifest; to explain.

Noun

A lamentation.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To complain.
2. To lament, bewail.

Synonyms

simple

clear

distinct

flat

evident

ordinary

field

obvious

homely

manifest

level

apparent

even

prairie

ugly

smooth

level land

plane

common

unadorned

bare

pure

level ground

explicit

easy

light

straightforward

⬆️

sheer

unattractive

frank

champaign

unpretentious

humble

valley

steppe

complain

unvarnished

lowly

flatland

meadow

mere

pampas

plateau

downright

flat land

open field

lowland

lucid

conspicuous

knit stitch

unequivocal

outspoken

unembellished

manifestly

clear-cut

ground

veld

plains

plain stitch

austere

sound off

spare

candid

naive

uncomplicated

quetch

moor

bright

kick

range

knit

regular

crude

savanna

monochromatic

modest

unambiguous

evidently

flat country

tundra

straight

sober

unmixed

unnoticeable

open

unornamented

open space

unaffected

indifferent

bald

unmingled

open country

black soil

earth

certain

simplex

empty

unpatterned

simplicity

simply

unadulterated

equal

river

rough

unpretending

kvetch

unremarkable

outback

guileless

apparently

unsophisticated

candidly

palpable

salient

unmistakable

obviously

patent

usual

patently

monochrome

desert

🏜️

savannah

veldt

honest

blunt

plainly

bush

wilderness

unostentatious

blank

sharp

undecorated

flatlands

frankly

basic

Lowlands

mediocre

dry

only

prominent

tangible

transparant

transparent

trenchant

trite

twist

unambitious

unappealing

unarmed

unassuming

unbleached

unblemished

uncarpeted

unceremonious

unconcealed

unconcerned

uncovered

underived

undersigning

understand

understandable

undisguised

undistinguished

unfinished

unfussy

unobtrusive

unoriginal

unpleasant

unpresentable

unseemly

unsheathed

unsightly

unspectacular

unstudied

unstylish

unsullied

used to

utter

vacant

verge

visible

void

wasteland

wont

wonted

workaday

The Plains

Demotic

denudate

easily understood

in the open

low ground

stony ground

straight forward

empty lot

bottom land

poor shape

sitting tailor fashion

unfigured

inartificial

inornate

self-colored

stepless

well-marked

depression

small field

level country

flat surface

undraped

unintoxicated

cultivate land

obious

open land

cleary perceived

distinctly visible

even ground

make friendship

inside loop

knitting stitch

single stitch

uninebriated

understand clearly

one-colour

flat area

plain as a pike-staff

unlacquered

unvarished

self coloured

clear about

flat topography

submarine plain

single-colored

plain-colored

unicolor

unicolored

unicoloured

plain-coloured

unicolour

easy to understand

single-coloured

above-board

absolute

absolutely

accustomed

acre

all right

arena

arrant

average

banal

barren

base

basin

becket

bight

bleak

bold

boring

boundary

broad

calm

categorical

chaste

clean

cleanly

clearly

cleat

cloudless

clumsy

coast

commonplace

comprehensible

contented

conventional

customary

decided

definite

denuded

direct

discernible

disinterested

down-to-earth

dull

elementary

equally

everyday

exposed

expressed

eye

👁️

facile

farmyard

feral

fields

flatness

floor

general

glabrous

gross

grouch

grummet

habitual

hairless

humdrum

ill-favored

imperceptible

incurious

ingenuous

insignificant

intelligent

intelligible

intelligibly

know

lament

land

lawn

light-coloured

limit

limpid

llano

loop

➿

lowlands

main

make peace

meager

mean

meek

menial

mesh

mild

moderate

monochromic

monochromical

naked

native

natural

neat

net

normal

open-and-shut

outright

overt

pastureland

pellucid

perspicuous

pithy

point-blank

poor

precise

prevalent

pronounced

proper

purely

pure white

quiet

quite

quotidian

real

right

round

rude

rustic

second-rate

severe

shamefaced

simple-minded

simpleton

single

slow-witted

small

smokeless

smoothing

solid

solved

spick-and-span

subdued

tableland

tame

tell

telltale

touchable

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pleɪn/

Etymology

From Middle English pleyn, borrowed from Anglo-Norman pleyn, playn, Middle French plain, plein, and Old French plain, from Latin plānus (“flat, even, level, plain”).