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PLAIN

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

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Synoynms

transparent, audible, broad, manifest, open, patent

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Examples

All the people I have ever met before were very plain to see.

They were still surrounded by the magic plain bathed in moonlight and spangled with stars.

It was plain that she was following a train of thought independent of her sister-in-law's words.

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Etymology

c. 1300, "flat, smooth," from Old French plain "flat, smooth, even" (12c.), from Latin planus "flat, even, level" (from PIE root *pele- (2) "flat; to spread"). Sense of "explicit, clear, evident" is from late 14c.; that of "free from obstruction" is mid-14c.; meaning "simple, sincere, ordinary" is recorded from late 14c., especially of dress, "unembellished, without decoration, unadorned." Of words, speech, etc., "direct and to the point," late 14c. As an adverb from late 14c.

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