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Search "plain" in: plain[adjective]Entry Word: plain Function: adjective Meaning: 1 free from all additions or embellishment <I like my hamburgers plain, with no ketchup or relish> <just give us the plain facts and none of your snide comments> Synonyms bald, bare, naked, simple, unadorned, undecorated, unvarnished Related Words chaste, modest; unexaggerated, unsophisticated; denuded, divested, stripped; dry, laconic, terse; unpretentious; austere, bleak, severe, spartan, stark; inconspicuous, muted, restrained, subdued, toned (down), unobtrusive; conservative, quiet, understated Near Antonyms flamboyant, flashy, garish, gaudy, glittery, glitzy, loud, ostentatious, showy, splashy, swank (or swanky), tawdry; bedizened, florid, lurid, ornate; exaggerated, overdecorated, overdone, overwrought; baroque, extravagant, rococo; arrayed, bedecked, decked-out, dressed, garnished, trimmed Antonyms adorned, decorated, embellished, fancy, ornamented 2 free from added matter <Iʼd prefer my pasta plain, not flavored with tomato or spinach or anything else> — see pure 1 3 free in expressing oneʼs true feelings and opinions <the piano teacher is honest and plain, if not always tactful> — see frank 4 going straight to the point clearly and firmly <a plain report on the current situation> — see straightforward 1 5 not subject to misinterpretation or more than one interpretation <let me make my meaning plain> — see clear 2
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