plain
plain is a 5-letter English word with 28 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, adverb, adjective, verb, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To lament; to bewail; to complain. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- intransitive verb. To lament; to bewail; to complain.
- transitive verb. To lament; to mourn over; as, to plain a loss.
- superlative. Without elevations or depressions; flat; level; smooth; even. See Plane.
- superlative. Open; clear; unencumbered; equal; fair.
- superlative. Not intricate or difficult; evident; manifest; obvious; clear; unmistakable.
- superlative. Void of extraneous beauty or ornament; without conspicious embellishment; not rich; simple.
- superlative. Not highly cultivated; unsophisticated; free from show or pretension; simple; natural; homely; common.
- superlative. Free from affectation or disguise; candid; sincere; artless; honest; frank.
- superlative. Not luxurious; not highly seasoned; simple; as, plain food.
- superlative. Without beauty; not handsome; homely; as, a plain woman.
- superlative. Not variegated, dyed, or figured; as, plain muslin.
- superlative. Not much varied by modulations; as, a plain tune.
- adverb. In a plain manner; plainly.
- adjective. Level land; usually, an open field or a broad stretch of land with an even surface, or a surface little varied by inequalities; as, the plain of Jordan; the American plains, or prairies.
- adjective. A field of battle.
- verb. To plane or level; to make plain or even on the surface.
- verb. To make plain or manifest; to explain.
- noun. a basic knitting stitch
- noun. extensive tract of level open land
"they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"
"he longed for the fields of his youth"
- verb. express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness
"My mother complains all day"
"She has a lot to kick about"
- adjective. lacking embellishment or ornamentation
"a plain hair style"
"unembellished white walls"
- adjective. lacking in physical beauty or proportion
"a homely child"
"several of the buildings were downright homely"
- adjective. free from any effort to soften to disguise
"the plain and unvarnished truth"
"the unvarnished candor of old people and children"
- adjective. clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment
"the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields"
"evident hostility"
- adjective. lacking patterns especially in color
- adjective. not elaborate or elaborated; simple
"plain food"
"stuck to the plain facts"
- adjective. not mixed with extraneous elements
"plain water"
"sheer wine"
- adverb. unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly')
"the answer is obviously wrong"
"she was in bed and evidently in great pain"
Synonyms
knit, champaign, field, complain, kick, kvetch, quetch, bare, spare, unembellished, unornamented, homely, unvarnished, apparent, evident, manifest, patent, unmistakable, unpatterned, sheer, unmingled, unmixed, apparently, evidently
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in plain:
Common word forms
plains, plained, plainer, plainly, plainest, plainful, plaining, plainness
Words from these letters
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