Plain
//plɛjn//
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The word "plain" can be used as adjective, noun, adjective, verb, adverb, proper noun and adverb.
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Angas Plains Australia Plains Avon Plains Back Plains Barunah Plains Bell Plain Bohle Plains Boonooroo Plains Boors Plain Boss of the Plains Brodies Plains Browns Plains Bruie Plains Brumby Plains Burt Plain Cecil Plains Central Plain Chances Plain Condamine Plains Cooke Plains Coopers Plains Dairy Plains Dairymans Plains Depsang Plains Dinner Plain Dockers Plains Dry Plain Eight Mile Plains Elevated Plains Emu Plains Evans Plains Fawcetts Plains Georges Plains Geranium Plains Gilles Plains Golden Plains Goorganga Plains Gowrie Little Plain Grace Plains Great Plains Greys Plain Grosses Plain Gunns Plains Hamilton Plains Hartys Plains High Plains Highland Plains Howitt Plains Isabella Plains Jerrys Plains Kellys Plains Kings Plains Lake Plains Little Plain Long Plain Long Plains Macquarie Plains Maddens Plains Major Plains Manchurian Plain Meridan Plains Mitchells Plain Moree Plains Morton Plains Mumblebone Plain Munro Plains Nelsons Plains North China Plain Northeast China Plain Nullarbor Plain Old Plains Pinkerton Plains Plain of Esdraelon Plains Powlett Plains Redbank Plains Reeves Plains Richmond Plains Rocky Plain Rollands Plains Rosalie Plains Salisbury Plain Salisbury Plains Scotch Plains Sharon Plain Smithfield Plains Snakes Plain Snowy Plain Spring Plains St Helens Plains Staked Plain Steam Plains Stockyard Plain Tarneit Plains The Plains Thomas Plain Tumut Plains Upper Rollands Plains Valentine Plains Victoria Plains Wallaroo Plain Welsh plain West Plains White Plains Wild Horse Plains Wilsons Plains York Plains abyssal plain alluvial plain etchplain flood plain floodplain gibber plain in plain sight in plain view just plain folks overplain paleoplain peneplain plain Dunstable plain English plain Jane plain and simple plain as Dunstable highway plain as Salisbury plain as a haystack plain as a pikestaff plain as day plain as porridge plain as print plain as the nose on one's face plain ball plain bearing plain bread plain brown wrapper plain chocolate plain clothes plain cook plain dealer plain dealing plain dress plain film plain flour plain leaf warbler plain line plain loaf plain of Mars plain old plain old data plain old telephone service plain paper plain people plain point plain pug plain radiography plain sailing plain saw plain song plain speech plain tall plain text plain to see plain truth plain vanilla plain view doctrine plain wanderer plain water plain weave plain work plain wrapper plain-breasted hawk plain-clothed plain-clothes plain-dealing plain-hearted plain-laid plain-looking plain-sailing plain-saw plain-song plain-speaking plain-spoken plain-vanilla plain-winged plain-winged antshrike plain-woven plainchant plainclothedpalaeoplain plainfin plainful plainful plainhead plainish plainland plainlike plainly plainness plains lovegrass plainsawn plainsfolk plainsies plainsong plainspeople plainspoken plainswoman plainware riverplain salt plain sandplain the rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain transplains unplain walled plain
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adornment aircraft and simple austere average average looking bagel barren basic battlefield bewail blandness blunt boring candid character clear colour complain description downright dull esplanade even evident expanse explain extended feature field flat flat land flavor flavour geographic geographic feature geography grassland grassy grassy expanse honest lament lamentation land level little little flavour looking manifest meadow meadows midwest natural nondescript nonprinting normal nothing nothing special obvious open ordinary ornament pattern plain text plaint planar plane raze regular relief seasoning simple simple style simple vanilla simply special style surface unadorned unattractive unembellished unmistakable unpretentious unrhetorical unsophisticated vanilla
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austere austere bare chaste chaste direct dry dry featureless featureless homely homely inelaborate inelaborate literal literal mere obvious pure severe simple simple solid coloured solid-colored solid-coloured stark stern tailored tailored trim unadorned unattractive undecorated unelaborate unpretentious unrhetorical unseasoned vanilla vanilla
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