Plainer

Synonyms for "plainer" (692 found)

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Closest matches (139)

simple apparent austere chaste dry featureless flatland homely ordinary plateau prairie steppe unadorned unembellished unvarnished naked abrupt absolute absolutely affable

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agricultural region air space all embracing all out all pervading all-embracing all-encompassing all-out all-pervading apparently appreciable arable land arrant articulate artless ascetic attic audible axiom axiomatic back country bald bare barefaced baseborn basic basin beautiless below the salt billiard table black belt blank blemished blotted bluff blunt bohemian born born yesterday bottomland bowling green broad broad-based brusque cacophonic cacophonous campestral campestrian campo candid case casual champaign cheerful cheery childlike ciceronian circumstance citrus belt classic classical clean clean cut clean-cut clear clear as crystal clear as day clear space clear-cut clearance clearing cockney coherent colorless comfortable common commonplace complain comprehensive confiding congenital connected consistent conspicuous consummate contrastive cordial corn belt cotton belt countryside cozy crisp crystal clear crystal-clear crystalline cushy

Adjective(18 words)

simple unadorned acceptable austere banal bare bare-bones bland blatant bloody bog-standard boring chaste cold colourless consarn crude damn

Adjective(2 words)

Adverb(1 words)

Noun(1 words)

Verb(1 words)

Strong matches (207)

Adjective(17 words)

damned darned dreich drowsy elucidate explicit frank garden variety general honest inornate intraordinary jeezly jesusly lackluster languid lifeless

datum dead flat dead level deep dyed deep-dyed defaced defined definite degage delta demonstrative desert direct discernible discreet disfigured distant prospect distinct distinctive down

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downright drab dull dust bowl dyed-in-the-wool dysphemistic dysphemized earth earthborn easy easy as pie easygoing effortless egregious elegant elementary empty view esplanade essential even everyday evident exhaustive explicit express facile fact familiar farm belt farm country farmland fell finished fizz flat flats flattened floor flush folksy forthright frank frankhearted free free and easy free spoken free-speaking free-spoken free-tongued friendly fruit belt fundamental garden garden variety garden-variety genuine glade glaring glib graceful gracile gracious graphic grass roots grassland grazing region gross ground guileless hard haymish hearable heart-to-heart heath hi fi hi-fi high plain high-fidelity highlands homaloid homaloidal homelike homespun homey homish homogeneous honest horizontal horizontal axis horizontal fault horizontal line horizontal parallax horizontal plane horizontal projection household humble humble-looking humble-visaged humblest humdrum ignoble ill-favored in focus indisputable indivisible indubitable inelaborate inelegant informal ingenu ingenuous inglorious innocent innocuous insipid intelligible intensive intimate irreducible irregular irretrievably irrevocably knit lean least lebensraum ledge legible level level line level plane light limpid literal living space llano loose loud and clear low lowborn lowbred lowest lowlands lowliest lowly lucid luminous main manifest mare marred matter of fact matter-of-fact mead meadows and pastures meagre mean

Adjective(3 words)

evident homely manifest

Adverb(2 words)

evidently manifestly

Noun(6 words)

field field in reference to a battlefield flatland grassland knit knit stitch

Verb(2 words)

kick kvetch

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mean sea level mere mesa mickey mouse modest monolithic moor moorland moors mousy mundane muted naive natural neat nitty gritty no frills nonclerical nondescript normal

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notable nothing to it noticeable observable obvious of a piece offhand offhanded omnibus omnipresent open open country open space open-and-shut openhanded openhearted out-and-out outback outright outspoken overt painless palpable pampas parterre pasture patent peaceful pedestrian pellucid perceivable perceptible perfect perfectly perspicuous pervasive pictorial plain as day plain spoken plain-speaking plain-spoken plains plane platform playa plebeian plumb plump poetryless polished poor postulate prairies primal primary prominent pronounced prosaic prose prosing prosy province provinces public pure pure and simple quite radical readable refined regular relaxed restrained right rolled round routine rude rural district rustic rustic region salt flat salt marsh savanna sea level sea of grass seeable self-esteem self-evident self-explaining self-explanatory severe shabby-genteel sheer short short on looks simon pure simon-pure simple as abc simple-speaking simplehearted simpleminded sincere single single minded single-hearted single-minded small smooth smoothed out smoothened snug sober sociable soft solid coloured spare spartan spoiled squashed squashed flat staring stark steppes straight straight out straight-out straightforward sweeping table tableland tabloid tabular tailored tangible tasteful teachable terrace terrain territory terse the country the soil the sticks third-estate thorough thoroughgoing through and through through-and-through tiresome to be seen tobacco belt total translucent transparent transpicuous trim trodden trodden flat trustful trusting tundra ubiquitous uglified ugly ugly as hell ugly as sin unadulterated unaesthetic unaffected unalluring unambiguous unassuming unattractive unbeauteous unbeautiful unburdensome unceremonious unchecked uncluttered uncomely uncomplicated unconcealed unconditional unconfused unconstrained unconventional undecorated understandable undifferenced undifferentiated undiluted undisguised undissembled undissembling undistinguished unelaborate unenhanced unequivocal unfeigned ungarnished ungenteel unguarded unhandsome unidealistic uniform unimaginative unimpassioned unimportant universal univocal unlabored unlovely unluxurious unmingled unmistakable unmitigated unmixed unofficial unornamented unostentatious unpleasing unpoetic unpoetical unpretending unpretentious unpretty unqualified unrelievedly unremarkable unreserved unrestrained unrestricted unromantic unseasoned unsightly unsophisticated unstudied unsuspicious unwary upland uplands utter vanilla vapid veld veldt veritable vernacular visible vivid vulgar water level weald well-defined well-marked well-pronounced well-resolved wheat belt wholesale wide open spaces wide-open spaces wilderness wold woodland woods and fields workaday workday yokeldom

Adjective(40 words)

modest monochrome no-frills normal notable obvious ordinary ostensible overt plain as porridge plain to see prima facie quiet ready salted run-of-the-mill severe sincere snoozy soporific spartan

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standard standard issue stinking stripped down uncool undecked unembellished unexceptional unextravagant ungarnished unholiday unornamented unpolished unseasoned untrimmed unvarnished usual wan weaksauce white bread

Adverb(3 words)

obviously patently plainly

Adjective(11 words)

palpable patent sheer spare unembellished unmingled unmistakable unmixed unornamented unpatterned unvarnished

Noun(1 words)

plain stitch

Verb(2 words)

quetch sound off

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I have read a good many books to discover what the authorities had to say that made the matter a little plainer.

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For my tastes, I'd prefer plainer, or rather, more tasteful clothing.

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The Way to see by Faith, is to shut the Eye of Reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle.

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This simmered dish has a bit of a strong taste, don't you think? It may just be that I prefer plainer foods though.

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