Main entry: knit, knit stitch, plain, plain stitch
Definition: a basic knitting stitch
Main entry: plain, champaign, field
Definition: extensive tract of level open land
Usage: they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain; he longed for the fields of his youth
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
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
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
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
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
Main entry: unpatterned, plain
Definition: lacking patterns especially in color
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
Main entry: plain, sheer, unmingled, unmixed
Definition: not mixed with extraneous elements
Usage: plain water; sheer wine; not an unmixed blessing
Main entry: evidently, apparently, manifestly, obviously, patently, plain, plainly
Definition: unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly')
Usage: 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