Definitions for plain

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Spelling: [pleyn]

IPA: /pleɪn/

Plain is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in plain (ailnp).

Definitions for plain

noun

1. an area of land not significantly higher than adjacent areas and with relatively minor differences in elevation, commonly less than 500 feet (150 meters), within the area.
2. The Plains. Great Plains.

adverb

1. clearly and simply:

adjective

1. clear or distinct to the eye or ear:
2. clear to the mind; evident, manifest, or obvious:
3. conveying the meaning clearly and simply; easily understood:
4. downright; sheer; utter; self-evident:
5. free from ambiguity or evasion; candid; outspoken:
6. without special pretensions, superiority, elegance, etc.; ordinary:
7. not beautiful; physically unattractive or undistinguished:
8. without intricacies or difficulties.
9. ordinary, simple, or unostentatious:
10. with little or no embellishment, decoration, or enhancing elaboration:
11. without a pattern, figure, or device:
12. not rich, highly seasoned, or elaborately prepared, as food:
13. flat or level:
14. unobstructed, clear, or open, as ground, a space, etc.
15. Cards. being other than a face card or a trump.

verb (used without object)

1. to complain.

Origin of plain

1250-1300; Middle English (adj., adv., and noun) Old French (adj. and noun) Latin plānus flat, level, plānum flat country

Examples for plain

It's a shirt and a plain stocking were got off a drowned man in Donegal.

It is already well known that there are oilrigs disguised in plain sight all over the city.

A plain case, that he had left his curiosity with me, and designed to shew me no other.

Aye, lad, and the plain things are always the hardest things to do.

One thing is plain, you must either go to them, or unlock the cellar-door.

The results of that rash decision, the most dire of which has been the rise of ISIS, are now plain for us to see.

Thanks to the Atlanta case, they can now see another in plain sight.

The track was plain enough, and there were hamlets at long intervals.

Yet, much like the fate that fell the first season, ratings just plain weren't good.

Because holy hell was that bland, unfunny, uncomfortable, and just plain confusing.