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The correct spelling is plain.
How to pronounce plain
/pleɪn/
adjectiveIPA: /pleɪn/
Say it like: Pla-yn
The correct spelling is plain. Flat, level. For example: "Throughout high school she worried that she had a rather plain face."
Usage Examples
“Throughout high school she worried that she had a rather plain face.”
“I plain forgot.”
“Tell me plain: do you love me or no?”
Meanings
adjective
- 1.Flat, level.
- 2.Simple.
- 3.Obvious.
- 4.Open.
- 5.Not unusually beautiful; unattractive.
adverb
- 1.Simply.
- 2.Plainly; distinctly.
noun
- 1.A lamentation.
- 2.A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.
- 3.A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals.
- 4.A place where competitive matches are carried out.
- 5.Any of various figurative meanings, regularly dead metaphors.
verb
- 1.To complain.
- 2.To lament, bewail.
- 3.To level; to raze; to make plain or even on the surface.
- 4.To make plain or manifest; to explain.
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