preprost način življenja

1) (simple or ordinary; without ornament or decoration: plain living; good, plain food.) preprost

2) (easy to understand; clear: His words were quite plain.) jasen

3) (absolutely open or honest, with no attempt to be tactful: I'll be quite plain with you; plain speaking.) odkrit

4) (obvious: It's plain (to see) you haven't been practising your music.) očiten

5) (not pretty: a rather plain girl.) puščoben

1) (a large flat level piece of land: the plains of central Canada.) ravnina

2) (a kind of knitting stitch.) desna petlja

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adjective ( plainly adverb)

preprost, enostaven, navaden; brez okraskov, preprost (soba itd.); nevzorčast, enobarven (blago); črno-bel (fotografija, risba); nemikaven, neprivlačen, neuglajen (obraz, dekle); jasen, razumljiv, nedvoumen, brez ovinkov (pogovor), očiten, razločen; nerazredčen (alkohol); odkrit, pošten; srednji, nepomemben, povprečen; metallurgy nelegiran (npr. jeklo); raven, plosk (dežela); figuratively gol, čist (nesmisel)

plain clothes — civilna obleka

plain cooking — domača kuhinja

plain card — navadna karta (razen kralja, dame in fanta)

plain fare — domača hrana

as plain as plain can be — ali as plain as the nose on one's face — ali plain as a pikestaff — ali as plain as point — jasno kot beli dan

plain dealer — poštenjak, odkrit človek

plain dealing — odkritost, iskrenost, pošteno trgovanje

plain knitting — gladko pletenje (same desne)

in plain English — ali in plain language — brez ovinkov, naravnost (povedati)

plain living — preprost način življenja

plain paper — nečrtan papir

plain sewing — bela vezenina, šivanje belega perila

plain speaking — odkrito govorjenje

plain truth — čista resnica

to be plain with — naravnost komu povedati

jasno, razumljivo; odkrito, pošteno

ravnina, ravan, nižava, poljana; bojišče; plural prerija

intransitive verb British English archaic & poetically žalovati, tožiti, tarnati