plain

plain
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noun
ADJECTIVE
open

The horses galloped across the open plains.

rolling

miles of rolling plain, made fertile by the river

great, vast
flat, flood
fertile

fertile plains suitable for farming

arid, barren
grassy
coastal
VERB + PLAIN
cross, roam

Herds of buffalo roamed these plains.

PREPOSITION
across a/the plain

Cattle move freely across the grassy plain.

in a/the plain

the Olduvai Gorge in the vast plain of Tanzania

on a/the plain

Nothing grew on the plain.

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adj.
1 simple/not decorated
VERBS
be, look, seem
ADVERB
extremely, fairly, very, etc.

The food was fairly plain, but well cooked.

completely

The dress was completely plain, but quite stunning.

PHRASES
plain blue, white, etc.

a plain white shirt

2 clear
VERBS
be, seem
become
make sth

They made it plain that they were against the idea.

ADVERB
fairly, very, etc.
absolutely, perfectly, quite

Within weeks, it became perfectly plain that we were in the grip of a tyrant.

increasingly
reasonably (esp. BrE)
PREPOSITION
to

It is all very plain to me.

Plain is used with these nouns: ↑carpet, ↑chocolate, ↑clothes, ↑common sense, ↑cotton, ↑crisp, ↑dress, ↑English, ↑envelope, ↑fabric, ↑face, ↑fact, ↑fare, ↑flour, ↑folk, ↑food, ↑fun, ↑glass, ↑language, ↑linen, ↑luck, ↑paper, ↑prose, ↑shirt, ↑stupidity, ↑T-shirt, ↑text, ↑tile, ↑truth, ↑white, ↑woman, ↑word, ↑wrapper, ↑yogurt
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adv.
Plain is used with these adjectives: ↑bonkers, ↑creepy, daft, ↑dumb, ↑ignorant, ↑lazy, ↑lucky, ↑old-fashioned, ↑rude, ↑scared, ↑silly, ↑stupid, ↑ugly, ↑wrong

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  • Plain — Plain, adv. In a plain manner; plainly. To speak short and pleyn. Chaucer. To tell you plain. Shak. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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