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• paljas• rumannäköinen• ruma• niukka• normaali• ikävystyttävä• ilmeinen• hiukseton• avoin• aukea• silkka• sileä• aava• alkeellinen• alaston• alasti• askeettinen• arkinen• vaatimaton• vähäeleinen• väritön• tavanomainen• tavallinen• teeskentelemätön• kaunistelematon• karu• mutkaton• peittelemätön• peitteinen• selväkielinen• selvä• suorasukainen• suora• sula• tasainen• tasanko• yksivärinen• yksikertainen• yksinkertainen• kuvioton• lakeus• pinta• koristelematon• koruton• kolkko• luonteva• luonnollinen* * *plein 1. adjective1) (simple or ordinary; without ornament or decoration: plain living; good, plain food.) yksinkertainen2) (easy to understand; clear: His words were quite plain.) selkeä3) (absolutely open or honest, with no attempt to be tactful: I'll be quite plain with you; plain speaking.) suora4) (obvious: It's plain (to see) you haven't been practising your music.) ilmeinen5) (not pretty: a rather plain girl.) tavallisen näköinen2. noun1) (a large flat level piece of land: the plains of central Canada.) tasanko2) (a kind of knitting stitch.) oikea silmukka•- plainly- plainness
- plain chocolate
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- plain sailing
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Plainness — Plain ness, n. The quality or state of being plain. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
plainness — index honesty, informality Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
Plainness — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Plainness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 plainness plainness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 simplicity simplicity severity Sgm: N 1 plain terms plain terms plain English Sgm: N 1 Saxon English Saxon English Sgm: N … English dictionary for students
plainness — plain ► ADJECTIVE 1) not decorated or elaborate; simple or ordinary. 2) without a pattern; in only one colour. 3) unmarked; without identification. 4) easy to perceive or understand; clear. 5) (of language) clearly expressed; direct. 6) (of a… … English terms dictionary
plainness — noun 1. the state of being unmixed with other material the plainness of vanilla ice cream • Derivationally related forms: ↑plain • Hypernyms: ↑purity, ↑pureness 2. clarity as a consequence of being perspicuous • Syn: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
plainness — noun see plain III … New Collegiate Dictionary
plainness — See plainly. * * * … Universalium
plainness — Synonyms and related words: Atticism, Bohemianism, accessibility, affability, apparentness, approachability, appropriateness, artlessness, atmospheric visibility, austerity, baldness, bareness, bluffness, bluntness, broadness, brusqueness,… … Moby Thesaurus
plainness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. The quality of being clear and easy to perceive or understand: clarity, clearness, distinctness, limpidity, limpidness, lucidity, lucidness, pellucidity, pellucidness, perspicuity, perspicuousness. See CLEAR. 2.… … English dictionary for students
plainness — plain·ness || pleɪnɪs n. simplicity, state of being unembellished, state of being unadorned … English contemporary dictionary
plainness — plain·ness … English syllables
