Words and phrases that have a meaning related to plain: (307 results)
Antonyms:
cheer, cheer up, chirk up, degenerate, deteriorate, drop, fancy, patterned
Often used in the same context:
pikestaff, simple, downright, incomprehensible, dumb, stupid, frankly, bland, vapidly, pure, simply, patently, juiceless, silly, utilitarian, pedantically, blindingly, damnably, fuddy, gobbledegook, laughably, bureaucratese, unintelligent, repugnantly, indistinctive, contentless, gobbledygook, legalese, hatefully, unoffensive, revoltingly, ignorant, gibberish, horridly, phooey, unadulterated, simplistic, impenetrably, nonsequitur, noxiously, purveyance, inelegant, unornamented, etymologies, unsophisticated, thickheaded, boring, unembellished, contemptibly, abhorrently, insultingly, lexis, frightfully, unutterably, flavourless, just, gimcrack, unappealingly, tildes, splodge, archaisms, perve, unadorned, filthily, breathtakingly, unpardonably, colloquialism, straightforward, wittedness, inoffensively, denotative, pollyanna, homophones, manifestly, utterly, insipidly, typographically, fancily, flowery, unreasoned, admittedly, sunnyside, sirree, flimsy, archaic, disgustingly, patronising, dialectal, cornier, darn, manky, gerund, synonym, adverbial, unsweet, humph, quaint, barnacled, chianti, uninteresting, childish, plains, prairie, prairies, upland, flatlands, savannahs, lowland, tableland, valley, steppe, expanses, pampas, meadows, plateau, steppes, pampa, plateaus, plateaux, sandhills, stretches, plainer, plainest, fashioned, oldfashioned, ordinary, homely, prosaic, unremarkable, unvarnished, banal, cleanest, commonplace, sober, ugliest, bald, presentable, unattractive
More specific:
backbite, beef, bellyache, bemoan, bewail, bleat, croak, deplore, flat, gnarl, gripe, grizzle, grouch, grouse, grumble, hen-peck, holler, indexing, inveigh, lament, moor, moorland, murmur, mutter, nag, olympia, peck, protest, rail, regret, repine, report, scold, snowfield, squawk, tundra, whine, yammer, yawp
Appears in the definition of:
., adhesive bandage, batiste, block capital, block letter, bogota, bun, capital of colombia, coastal plain, crew neck, crew neckline, deal, decipherer, decipherment, decoder, decoding, decryption, downright, duck, encoding, encryption, explanation, explicate, fancy, floodplain, flood plain, foil, foulard, gauze, gauze bandage, genus pedionomus, great victoria desert, homely, llano, lyonia mariana, mennonitism, mount, muslin, nullarbor plain, olympia, olympian, pedionomus, piedmont, plain-woven, plainness, plain sailing, popular, prairie, roll, socle, staggerbush, stagger bush, steppe, swift, tammy, tellingly, thessalia, thessaly, tidewater, tundra, undisguised, unequivocal, unvarnished, utilitarian, velvet, wedding band, wedding ring, wild ass, wincey
More general:
dry land, earth, ground, knitting stitch, land, solid ground, terra firma
Synonyms:
Also try:apparent, apparently, austere, bare, champaign, chaste, complain, direct, dry, evident, evidently, featureless, field, general, inelaborate, kick, knit, knit stitch, kvetch, literal, manifest, mere, modest, obvious, obviously, patent, plain stitch, plainly, pure and simple, quetch, self-colored, self-coloured, severe, sheer, solid, sound off, stark, tailored, trim, undecorated, unelaborate, unmingled, unmixed, unpatterned, unpretentious, unrhetorical
— Nouns for plain: english, language, man, words, truth, fact, sight, view, people, clothes, water, more...
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