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plain

The correct spelling is plain.

How to pronounce plain

/pleɪn/
adjective

IPA: /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. 1.Flat, level.
  2. 2.Simple.
  3. 3.Obvious.
  4. 4.Open.
  5. 5.Not unusually beautiful; unattractive.

adverb

  1. 1.Simply.
  2. 2.Plainly; distinctly.

noun

  1. 1.A lamentation.
  2. 2.A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.
  3. 3.A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals.
  4. 4.A place where competitive matches are carried out.
  5. 5.Any of various figurative meanings, regularly dead metaphors.

verb

  1. 1.To complain.
  2. 2.To lament, bewail.
  3. 3.To level; to raze; to make plain or even on the surface.
  4. 4.To make plain or manifest; to explain.

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