• a basic knitting stitch
• extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open Plain"; "he longed for the fields of his youth"
• express comPlaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness; "My mother comPlains all day"; "She has a lot to kick about"
• lacking embellishment or ornamentation; "a Plain hair style"; "unembellished white walls"; "functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete"
• lacking in physical beauty or proportion; "a homely child"; "several of the buildings were downright homely"; "a Plain girl with a freckled face"
• free from any effort to soften to disguise; "the Plain and unvarnished truth"; "the unvarnished candor of old people and children"
• comprehensible to the general public; "written for the popular press in Plain nontechnical language"
• clearly apparent or obvious to the mind or senses; "the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields"; "evident hostility"; "manifest disapproval"; "patent advantages"; "made his meaning Plain"; "it is Plain that he is no reac
• lacking patterns especially in color
• not elaborate or elaborated; simple; "Plain food"; "stuck to the Plain facts"; "a Plain blue suit"; "a Plain rectangular brick building"
• not mixed with extraneous elements; "Plain water"; "sheer wine"; "not an unmixed blessing"
• lacking stylistic embellishment; "a literal description"; "wrote good but Plain prose"; "a Plain unadorned account of the coronation"; "a forthright unembellished style"
• 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 apparent

'Plain' in other languages