Synonyms of the word

plain

• adj. (now rare, regional) Flat, level.
• adj. Simple.
• adj. Obvious.
• adj. Open.
• adj. Not unusually beautiful; unattractive.
• adv. (colloquial) Simply.
• n. (rare, poetic) A lamentation.
• v. (reflexive, obsolete) To complain.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, now rare, poetic) To lament, bewail.
• n. An expanse of land with relatively low relief.
• n. A battlefield.
• n. (obsolete) A plane.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To level; to raze; to make plain or even on the surface.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To make plain or manifest; to explain.

apparent

• adj. Capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye, eyely; within sight or view.
• adj. Clear or manifest to the understanding; plain; evident; obvious; known; palpable; indubitable.
• adj. Appearing to the eye or mind (distinguished from, but not necessarily opposed to, true or real); seeming.

apparently

• adv. (archaic) Plainly; clearly; manifestly; evidently.
• adv. Seemingly; in appearance only.
• adv. According to what the speaker has read or heard.

austere

• adj. Grim or severe in manner or appearance.
• adj. Lacking trivial decoration; not extravagant or gaudy.

bare

• adj. Minimal; that is or are just sufficient.
• adj. Naked, uncovered.
• adj. Having no supplies.
• adj. Having no decoration.
• adj. Having had what usually covers (something) removed.
• adj. (Britain, slang, not comparable) A lot or lots of.
• adj. With head uncovered; bareheaded.
• adj. Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
• adj. (figuratively) Mere; without embellishment.
• adj. Threadbare; much worn.
• adv. (Britain, slang) Very; significantly.
• adv. Barely.
• adv. Without a condom.
• n. (‘the bare’) the surface, the (bare) skin.
• n. Surface; body; substance.
• n. (architecture) That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
• v. (transitive) To uncover; to reveal.
• v. (obsolete) simple past tense of bear.

champaign

• n. (geography, archaic) Open countryside, or an area of open countryside.
• n. (obsolete) A battlefield.
• adj. Pertaining to open countryside; unforested, flat.

chaste

• adj. abstaining from sexual intercourse, celibate.
• adj. virginal, innocent, having had no sexual experience.
• adj. simple, austere, undecorative.
• adj. modest, decent, morally pure.

complain

• v. (intransitive) To express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment.
• v. (intransitive) To make a formal accusation or bring a formal charge.
• v. To creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel.

direct

• adj. Proceeding without deviation or interruption.
• adj. Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end.
• adj. Straightforward; sincere.
• adj. Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
• adj. In the line of descent; not collateral.
• adj. (astronomy) In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the…
• adj. (political science) Pertaining to, or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes…
• adj. (aviation, travel) having a single flight number.
• adv. Directly.
• v. To manage, control, steer.
• v. To aim (something) at (something else).
• v. To point out or show to (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way.
• v. To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order.
• v. (dated) To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom…

dry

• adj. Free from or lacking moisture.
• adj. Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (Petrochemistry) oil, or (farming) milk.
• adj. (masonry) Built without or lacking mortar.
• adj. (chemistry) Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquid…
• adj. Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
• adj. (law) Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.
• adj. Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly.
• adj. (sciences, somewhat pejorative) Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
• n. (US) A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
• n. (especially Australia, with "the") The dry season.
• n. (Australia) An area of waterless country.
• v. (intransitive) To lose moisture.
• v. (transitive) To remove moisture from.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be thirsty.

earth

• p.n. Our planet, third out from the Sun; see main entry Earth.
• n. (uncountable) Soil.
• n. (uncountable) Any general rock-based material.
• n. The ground, land (as opposed to the sky or sea).
• n. (Britain) A connection electrically to the earth ((US) ground); on equipment: a terminal connected in…
• n. A fox's home or lair.
• n. The world of our current life (as opposed to heaven or an afterlife).
• n. (alchemy) One of the four basic elements.
• n. (India and Japan) One of the five basic elements.
• n. (Taoism) One of the five basic elements.
• v. (Britain) To connect electrically to the earth.
• v. To bury.
• v. (transitive) To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den.
• v. To burrow.

evident

• adj. Obviously true by simple observation; eyely.

evidently

• adv. (obsolete) In such a way as to be clearly visible or manifest; distinctly, clearly.
• adv. In a manner which makes the fact or conclusion evident; obviously, as may be clearly inferred.

featureless

• adj. Without distinguishing features.

field

• n. A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.
• n. A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals.
• n. The open country near or belonging to a town or city—usually used in plural.
• n. A physical phenomenon, such as force, potential, or fluid velocity, that pervades a region.
• n. An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways.
• n. A course of study or domain of knowledge or practice.
• n. The extent of a given perception.
• n. A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.
• n. An area reserved for playing a game.
• n. A realm of practical, direct, or natural operation, contrasting with an office, classroom, or laboratory.
• n. (algebra) A commutative ring with identity for which every nonzero element has a multiplicative inverse.
• n. (geology) A region containing a particular mineral.
• n. (heraldry) The background of the shield.
• n. (vexillology) The background of the flag.
• n. (computing) An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value.
• n. A component of a database record in which a single unit of information is stored.
• n. A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of characters.
• n. (baseball, obsolete) The team in a match that throws the ball and tries to catch it when it is hit by…
• n. (baseball) The outfield.
• n. An unrestricted or favourable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement.
• n. All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting.
• v. (transitive, sports) To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
• v. (baseball, softball, cricket, and other batting sports) To be the team catching and throwing the ball,…
• v. (transitive, sports) To place a team in (a game).
• v. (transitive) To answer; to address.
• v. (transitive) To defeat.
• v. (transitive) To execute research (in the field).
• v. (transitive, military) To deploy in the field.

ground

• n. (uncountable) The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.
• n. (uncountable) Terrain.
• n. (uncountable) Soil, earth.
• n. (countable) The bottom of a body of water.
• n. Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.
• n. Reason, (epistemic) justification, cause.
• n. Background, context, framework, surroundings.
• n. The plain surface upon which the figures of an artistic composition are set.
• n. In sculpture, a flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief.
• n. In point lace, the net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied.
• n. In etching, a gummy substance spread over the surface of a metal to be etched, to prevent the acid from…
• n. (architecture, chiefly in the plural) One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which mouldings…
• n. (countable) A soccer stadium.
• n. (electricity, Canada and US) An electrical conductor connected to the ground.
• n. (electricity, Canada and US) A level of electrical potential used as a zero reference.
• n. (countable, cricket) The area of grass on which a match is played (a cricket field); the entire arena…
• n. (music) A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually…
• n. (music) The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.
• n. The pit of a theatre.
• v. (US) To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground.
• v. (transitive) To punish, especially a child or teenager, by forcing him/her to stay at home and/or give…
• v. (transitive) To forbid (an aircraft or pilot) to fly.
• v. To give a basic education in a particular subject; to instruct in elements or first principles.
• v. (baseball) to hit a ground ball; to hit a ground ball which results in an out. Compare fly (verb(regular))…
• v. (cricket) (of a batsman) to place his bat, or part of his body, on the ground behind the popping crease…
• v. (intransitive) To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed.
• v. To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly.
• v. (fine arts) To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching, or as paper or other materials with…
• v. To improve or focus the mental or emotional state of.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of grind.
• adj. Crushed, or reduced to small particles.
• adj. Processed by grinding.

homely

• adj. (Canada, US) Lacking in beauty or elegance, plain in appearance, physically unattractive.
• adj. (archaic) Characteristic of or belonging to home; domestic.
• adj. (Britain dialectal) On intimate or friendly terms with (someone); familiar; at home (with a person); intimate.
• adj. (Britain dialectal, of animals) Domestic; tame.
• adj. (Britain dialectal) Personal; private.
• adj. (Britain dialectal) Friendly; kind; gracious; cordial.
• adj. (archaic) Simple; plain; familiar; unelaborate; unadorned.

inelaborate

• adj. Not elaborate; crude; unfinished.

kick

• v. (transitive) To strike or hit with the foot or other extremity of the leg.
• v. (intransitive) To make a sharp jerking movement of the leg, as to strike something.
• v. (transitive) To direct to a particular place by a blow with the foot or leg.
• v. (with "off" or "out") To eject summarily.
• v. (Internet) To forcibly remove a participant from an online activity.
• v. (slang) To overcome (a bothersome or difficult issue or obstacle); to free oneself of (a problem).
• v. To move or push suddenly and violently.
• v. (of a firearm) To recoil; to push by recoiling.
• v. (chess, transitive) To attack (a piece) in order to force it to move.
• v. (cycling, intransitive) To accelerate quickly with a few pedal strokes in an effort to break away from…
• n. A hit or strike with the leg, foot or knee.
• n. The action of swinging a foot or leg.
• n. (colloquial) Something that tickles the fancy; something fun or amusing.
• n. (Internet) The removal of a person from an online activity.
• n. A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) whose only or main current function is that when it…
• n. (figuratively) Any bucking motion of an object that lacks legs or feet.
• n. (uncountable and countable) piquancy.
• n. A stimulation provided by an intoxicating substance.
• n. (soccer) A pass played by kicking with the foot.
• n. (soccer) The distance traveled by kicking the ball.
• n. a recoil of a gun.
• n. (informal) pocket.
• n. An increase in speed in the final part of a running race.
• v. To die.

knit

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To turn thread or yarn into a piece of fabric by forming loops that are pulled…
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To join closely and firmly together.
• v. (intransitive) To become closely and firmly joined; become compacted.
• v. (intransitive) To grow together.
• v. (transitive) To combine from various elements.
• v. (intransitive) Of bones: to heal following a fracture.
• v. (transitive) To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying.
• v. (transitive) To draw together; to contract into wrinkles.
• n. A knitted garment.

kvetch

• v. To whine or complain, often needlessly and incessantly.
• n. Person who endlessly whines or complains; a person who finds fault with anything.
• n. An instance of kvetching; a complaint or whine.

land

• n. The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
• n. Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and on which buildings…
• n. A country or region.
• n. A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
• n. The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
• n. A general country, state, or territory.
• n. (often in combination) realm, domain.
• n. (agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is…
• n. (Ireland, colloquial) A fright.
• n. (electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
• n. In a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
• n. (travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
• n. (obsolete) The ground or floor.
• n. (nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called…
• n. In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is…
• v. (intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
• v. (dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
• v. (intransitive) To come into rest.
• v. (intransitive) To arrive at land, especially a shore, or a dock, from a body of water.
• v. (transitive) To bring to land.
• v. (transitive) To acquire; to secure.
• v. (transitive) To deliver.
• adj. Of or relating to land.
• adj. Residing or growing on land.
• n. lant; urine.

literal

• adj. Exactly as stated; read or understood without additional interpretation; according to the letter or verbal…
• adj. Following the letter or exact words; not free; not taking liberties.
• adj. (uncommon) Consisting of, or expressed by, letters.
• adj. (of a person) Giving a strict or literal construction; unimaginative; matter-of-fact.
• n. (programming) A value, as opposed to an identifier, written into the source code of a computer program.
• n. (logic) A propositional variable or the negation of a propositional variable.

manifest

• adj. Evident to the senses, especially to the sight; apparent; distinctly perceived.
• adj. Obvious to the understanding; apparent to the mind; easily apprehensible; plain; not obscure or hidden.
• adj. (rare, used with "of") Detected; convicted.
• n. (obsolete) A public declaration; an open statement; a manifesto or manifestation.
• n. A list or invoice of the passengers or goods being carried by a commercial vehicle or ship.
• n. (computing) A file containing metadata describing other files.
• v. To show plainly; to make to appear distinctly, usually to the mind; to put beyond question or doubt; to…
• v. To exhibit the manifests or prepared invoices of; to declare at the customhouse.

manifestly

• adv. In a manifest manner; obviously.

mere

• n. (obsolete) the sea.
• n. (dialectal or literary) A pool; a small, shallow lake or pond; marsh. Also included in place names such…
• n. boundary, limit; a boundary-marker; boundary-line.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To limit; bound; divide or cause division in.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To set divisions and bounds.
• v. (cartography) To decide upon the position of a boundary; to position it on a map.
• adj. (obsolete) famous.
• adj. (obsolete) Pure, unalloyed.
• adj. (obsolete) Nothing less than; complete, downright.
• adj. Just, only; no more than, pure and simple, neither more nor better than might be expected.
• n. a Maori war-club.

obvious

• adj. Easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory.

obviously

• adv. In a obvious manner; clearly apparent.

patent

• n. A declaration issued by a government agency declaring someone the inventor of a new invention and having…
• n. A specific grant of ownership of a piece of property; a land patent.
• n. Patent leather: a varnished, high-gloss leather typically used for shoes and accessories.
• v. To successfully register an invention with a government agency; to secure a letter patent.
• adj. (biology) open, unobstructed, expanded.
• adj. explicit and obvious.
• adj. (of flour) that is fine, and consists mostly of the inner part of the endosperm.
• adj. Open; unconcealed; conspicuous.
• adj. Open to public perusal; said of a document conferring some right or privilege.
• adj. Protected by a legal patent.

patently

• adv. In a clear and unambiguous manner.

plainly

• adv. In a plain manner; simply; basically.
• adv. Obviously; clearly.

pure

• adj. Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.
• adj. Free of foreign material or pollutants.
• adj. Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean.
• adj. (of a branch of science) Done for its own sake instead of serving another branch of science.
• adj. (phonetics) Of a single, simple sound or tone; said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.
• adj. (of sound) Without harmonics or overtones; not harsh or discordant.
• adv. (Liverpudlian) to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.
• v. (golf) to hit (the ball) completely cleanly and accurately.
• n. Alternative form of puer.

quetch

• v. Alternative form of quitch.

severe

• adj. Very bad or intense.
• adj. Strict or harsh.
• adj. Sober, plain in appearance, austere.

sheer

• adj. (textiles) Very thin or transparent.
• adj. (obsolete) Pure in composition; unmixed; unadulterated.
• adj. (by extension) Downright; complete; pure.
• adj. Used to emphasize the amount or degree of something.
• adj. Very steep; almost vertical or perpendicular.
• adv. (archaic) Clean; quite; at once.
• n. (nautical) The curve of the main deck or gunwale from bow to stern.
• n. (nautical) An abrupt swerve from the course of a ship.
• v. (chiefly nautical) To swerve from a course.
• v. (obsolete) To shear.

simple

• adj. Uncomplicated; taken by itself, with nothing added.
• adj. Without ornamentation; plain.
• adj. Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.
• adj. Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.
• adj. (now rare) Trivial; insignificant.
• adj. (now colloquial) Feeble-minded; foolish.
• adj. (heading, technical) Structurally uncomplicated.
• adj. (obsolete) Mere; not other than; being only.
• n. (medicine) A preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.
• n. (obsolete) A term for a physician, derived from the medicinal term above.
• n. (logic) A simple or atomic proposition.
• n. (obsolete) Something not mixed or compounded.
• n. (weaving) A drawloom.
• n. (weaving) Part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.
• n. (Roman Catholicism) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To gather simples, i.e., medicinal herbs.

spare

• adj. Scanty; not abundant or plentiful.
• adj. Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; chary.
• adj. Being over and above what is necessary, or what must be used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous.
• adj. Held in reserve, to be used in an emergency.
• adj. Lean; wanting flesh; meager; thin; gaunt.
• adj. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) Slow.
• n. The act of sparing; moderation; restraint.
• n. Parsimony; frugal use.
• n. An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.
• n. That which has not been used or expended.
• n. A spare part, especially a spare tire.
• n. (bowling) The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in…
• n. (bowling) The act of knocking down all remaining pins in second ball of a frame; this entitles the pins…
• n. (Canada) A block of school during which one does not have a class.
• v. To show mercy.
• v. To keep.
• v. (transitive) To deprive oneself of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to…

stark

• adj. (obsolete) Hard, firm; obdurate.
• adj. Severe; violent; fierce (now usually in describing the weather).
• adj. (rare) Strong; vigorous; powerful.
• adj. Stiff, rigid.
• adj. Hard in appearance; barren, desolate.
• adj. Complete, absolute, full.
• adv. starkly; entirely, absolutely.
• v. (obsolete or dialect) To stiffen.

stern

• adj. Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.
• adj. Grim and forbidding in appearance.
• n. (nautical) The rear part or after end of a ship or vessel.
• n. (figuratively) The post of management or direction.
• n. The hinder part of anything.
• n. The tail of an animal; now used only of the tail of a dog.
• n. A bird, the black tern.

tailored

• adj. Adjusted by a tailor, fitted.
• adj. Made by a tailor.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of tailor.

trim

• v. (transitive) To reduce slightly; to cut; especially, to remove excess; e.g. 'trim a hedge', 'trim a beard'…
• v. (transitive) To decorate or adorn; especially of a Christmas tree.
• v. (transitive, aviation, of an aircraft) To adjust pitch using trim tabs.
• v. (transitive, nautical, of a vessel) To modify the angle relative to the water by shifting cargo or ballast;…
• v. (transitive, nautical, of a vessel's sails) To modify the angle (of the sails) relative to the wind, especially…
• v. (dated) To balance; to fluctuate between parties, so as to appear to favour each.
• v. (transitive) To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.
• v. (transitive, carpentry, of timber) To dress; to make smooth.
• v. (transitive, dated) To rebuke; to reprove; also, to beat.
• n. (uncountable) Decoration; especially, decoration placed along edges or borders.
• n. (countable) A haircut, especially a moderate one to touch up an existing style.
• n. Dress; gear; ornaments.
• n. (countable) The manner in which something is equipped or adorned; order; disposition.
• n. (uncountable, slang, mildly vulgar) Sexual intercourse.
• n. (nautical) The fore-and-aft angle of the vessel to the water, with reference to the cargo and ballast;…
• n. (nautical) The arrangement of the sails with reference to the wind.
• adj. Physically fit.
• adj. Slender, lean.
• adj. Neat or smart in appearance.
• adv. (nautical) In good order, properly managed or maintained.
• adv. (nautical) With sails well trimmed.

unadorned

• adj. Having no additional decoration or embellishment; plain and simple.

unattractive

• adj. Not handsome or beautiful or appealing.
• adj. Lacking the power to attract interest.
• n. An aesthetically unattractive person.

undecorated

• adj. Not possessing decorations.

unelaborate

• adj. Not elaborate; simple.

unembellished

• adj. Plain, unadorned, or simple.

unmingled

• adj. not mingled.

unmistakable

• adj. unique, such that it cannot be mistaken for something else.

unmixed

• adj. Pure, not mixed or combined.

unornamented

• adj. Not ornamented; without ornament.

unpatterned

• adj. Not patterned.

unpretentious

• adj. Simple, humble, not pretentious, plain.

unrhetorical

• adj. Not rhetorical.

unvarnished

• adj. Not having been coated with varnish (or a similar surface treatment).
• adj. (figuratively, by extension) Natural, unmodified, unembellished, not exaggerated, as in unvarnished truth.

vanilla

• n. (countable) Any tropical, climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla (especially Vanilla planifolia), bearing…
• n. (countable) The fruit or bean of the vanilla plant.
• n. (uncountable) The extract of the fruit of the vanilla plant.
• n. (uncountable) The distinctive fragrant flavour/flavor characteristic of vanilla extract.
• n. (uncountable) Any artificially produced homologue of vanilla extract, principally vanillin produced from…
• adj. (of flavor, etc.) Of vanilla.
• adj. (colloquial, chiefly computing) Standard, plain, default, unmodified, basic.
• adj. (sexuality) Not kinky, not involving BDSM.
• adj. Plain; conventional; unimaginative.