1. (

• plain ,
• field ,
• champaign

) extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of his youth" ;

2. (

• knit ,
• knit_stitch ,
• plain ,
• plain_stitch

) a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the lefthand side ;

1. (

• complain ,
• kick ,
• plain ,
• sound_off ,
• quetch ,
• kvetch

) express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness; "My mother complains all day"; "She has a lot to kick about" ;

1. (

• apparent ,
• evident ,
• manifest ,
• palpable ,
• patent ,
• plain ,
• unmistakable

) 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"; "manifest disapproval"; "patent advantages"; "made his meaning plain"; "it is plain that he is no reactionary"; "in plain view"; "a palpable lie" ;

2. (

• plain ,

) not elaborate or elaborated; simple; "plain food"; "stuck to the plain facts"; "a plain blue suit"; "a plain rectangular brick building" ;

3. (

• plain ,
• unpatterned ,

) lacking patterns especially in color ;

4. (

• plain ,
• sheer ,
• unmingled ,
• unmixed

) not mixed with extraneous elements; "plain water"; "sheer wine"; "not an unmixed blessing" ;

5. (

• plain ,
• unvarnished

) free from any effort to soften to disguise; "the plain and unvarnished truth"; "the unvarnished candor of old people and children" ;

6. (

• plain ,
• bare ,
• spare ,
• unembellished ,
• unornamented

) lacking embellishment or ornamentation; "a plain hair style"; "unembellished white walls"; "functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete" ;

7. (

• homely ,
• plain

) lacking in physical beauty or proportion; "a homely child"; "several of the buildings were downright homely"; "a plain girl with a freckled face" ;

1. (

• obviously ,
• evidently ,
• manifestly ,
• patently ,
• apparently ,
• plainly ,
• plain

) 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 apparently been living here for some time"; "I thought he owned the property, but apparently not"; "You are plainly wrong"; "he is plain stubborn" ;