Antonyms for plain

Antonyms for (verb) plain

Main entry: sound off, kvetch, kick, quetch, plain, complain

Definition: express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness

Usage: My mother complains all day; She has a lot to kick about

Antonyms: cheer, cheer up, chirk up

Definition: become cheerful


Antonyms for (adj) plain

Main entry: unpatterned, plain

Definition: lacking patterns especially in color

Antonyms: patterned

Definition: having patterns (especially colorful patterns)


Main entry: plain

Definition: not elaborate or elaborated; simple

Usage: plain food; stuck to the plain facts; a plain blue suit; a plain rectangular brick building

Antonyms: fancy

Definition: not plain; decorative or ornamented


Antonyms: nonliteral, figurative

Definition: (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech


Antonyms: wet

Definition: cause to become wet


Antonyms: phlegmy

Definition: characterized by phlegm


Antonyms: sweet

Definition: (used of wines) having a high residual sugar content


Antonyms: wet

Definition: covered or soaked with a liquid such as water


Antonyms: wet, lactating

Definition: producing or secreting milk


Antonyms: wet

Definition: supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of alcoholic beverages


Antonyms: wet

Definition: containing moisture or volatile components


Antonyms: compound

Definition: composed of more than one part


Antonyms: complex

Definition: complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts


Antonyms: covered

Definition: overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form


Antonyms: unchaste

Definition: not chaste


Main entry: unvarnished, plain

Definition: free from any effort to soften to disguise

Usage: the plain and unvarnished truth; the unvarnished candor of old people and children

Antonyms: indirect

Definition: not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination


Antonyms: alternating

Definition: (of a current) reversing direction


Antonyms: indirect

Definition: extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action


Antonyms: inverse

Definition: opposite in nature or effect or relation to another quantity


Antonyms: retrograde

Definition: moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth


Main entry: unembellished, unornamented, plain, bare, spare

Definition: lacking embellishment or ornamentation

Usage: a plain hair style; unembellished white walls; functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete

Antonyms: decorated, adorned

Definition: provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction


Main entry: homely, plain

Definition: lacking in physical beauty or proportion

Usage: a homely child; several of the buildings were downright homely; a plain girl with a freckled face

Antonyms: attractive

Definition: pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm


Main entry: plain, sheer, unmingled, unmixed

Definition: not mixed with extraneous elements

Usage: plain water; sheer wine; not an unmixed blessing

Antonyms: impure

Definition: (used of persons or behaviors) immoral or obscene


Antonyms: impure

Definition: combined with extraneous elements


Main entry: patent, unmistakable, apparent, plain, manifest, evident

Definition: clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment

Usage: 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

Antonyms: unobvious

Definition: not immediately apparent


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