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plainness

/pleyn/US // pleɪn //UK // (pleɪn) //

平实,朴素,朴实,平淡

Related Words

transparent透明的,透明,透明化,透明性honest诚信,诚实,诚实的,廉洁simple简单,简单的,单纯的,单纯traditional传统的,传统ordinary普通,普通的,寻常,一般conventional常规的,传统的,常规,传统dull枯燥乏味,枯燥无味,枯燥的,沉闷的unvarnished不加修饰的,不加掩饰的,不折不扣的,不加修饰地austere朴素的,朴素,拙朴的,拙朴stark严酷的,严峻的,鲜明的,严酷pure纯粹的,纯粹,纯净的,纯净meadow草地,草场,草原,草坪expanse广袤无垠,广袤,广场,广阔field领域,场,领域的,领域内prairie草原,草原地区,草地,草坪steppe干草原,草原,平原,草原上grassland草地,草原,草地上,草地上的plateau高原,高原地区,高原区,高原地带patent专利权,专利,专利的,专利权归属broad广泛的,广泛,宽泛的,宽广的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    plain·er, plain·est.

    • : clear or distinct to the eye or ear: a plain trail to the river; to stand in plain view.
    • : clear to the mind; evident, manifest, or obvious: to make one's meaning plain.
    • : conveying the meaning clearly and simply; easily understood: plain talk.
    • : downright; sheer; utter; self-evident: plain folly; plain stupidity.
    • : free from ambiguity or evasion; candid; outspoken: the plain truth of the matter.
    • : without special pretensions, superiority, elegance, etc.; ordinary: plain people.
    • : not beautiful; physically unattractive or undistinguished: a plain face.
    • : without intricacies or difficulties.
    • : ordinary, simple, or unostentatious: Although she was a duchess, her manners were attractively plain.
    • : with little or no embellishment, decoration, or enhancing elaboration: a plain blue suit.
    • : without a pattern, figure, or device: a plain fabric.
    • : not rich, highly seasoned, or elaborately prepared, as food: a plain diet.
    • : flat or level: plain country.
    • : unobstructed, clear, or open, as ground, a space, etc.
    • : Cards. being other than a face card or a trump.
adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : clearly and simply: He's just plain stupid.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an area of land not significantly higher than adjacent areas and with relatively minor differences in elevation, commonly less than 500 feet, within the area.
    • : The Plains. Great Plains.

Phrases

  • plain as day
  • plain sailing
  • in plain English

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounclarity
Synonyms
accuracy准确性,准确度,准确率,精确性articulateness阐明性,衔接性,艺术性,衔接brightness亮度,光度,光明度,光亮度certainty确定性,确定,确定的,确定无疑clearness清晰度,清晰性,透明度,清澈度comprehensibility可理解性,理解性,易懂性,可读性conspicuousness显而易见,显而易见的是,显眼的,显而易见的definition定义,释义,释義directness直接性,直率性,直觉性,率直性distinctness鲜明性,明确性,明显性,分明度evidence证据,证据显示,证据表明exactitude准确度,精确性,精确度,准确exactness准确度,精确性,准确,确切性explicitness明确性,公开性,明显的,明显性intelligibility可懂性,可理解性,可懂度,理解力legibility可读性,可阅性,易读性,可辨识度limpidity清晰度,清廉,清脆的声音,清晰lucidity清醒度,清晰度,清醒性,明晰度lucidness清晰度,清醒,清醒度,清醒状态obviousness明显性,显著性,显而易见,显性openness公开性,开放性,开放,公开化palpability可触摸性,可触性,可触及性,触觉pellucidity透明性,透明度,透明化,透明度高pellucidness清晰度,透明度,透明性,清澈度penetrability渗透性,渗透率,渗透力,穿透力perceptibility可感知性,感知力,感受性,感知能力perspicuity明确性,透视性,透彻性,精明度perspicuousness透视性,透彻性,明察秋毫,明确性precision精度,精确度,精确性,精确prominence突出显示,突出表现,凸显,突出的地位purity纯度,纯净度,纯洁性,洁净度salience显著性,突出性,凸显性,突出强调simplicity简单性,简易性,简单,简洁tangibility切实可行,切实性,切实可行的,可行性transparency透明度,透明性,透明度问题,透明度方面unambiguity毫不含糊,不含糊,不明确性,含糊不清cognizability可认知性,可识别性,认知性,可认识性decipherability破译性,破译率,破译能力,破译explicability可解释性,可解释性,可说明性,可证明性limpidness清澈见底,清澈度,清澈透明,清澈manifestness多样性,体现性,表现力,体现在overtness过度紧张,过度,过度性,超越unmistakability无误性,无歧义,无误,无懈可击
nounmodesty
Synonyms
discreetness谨慎性,谨慎,审慎性,慎重humbleness谦逊,谦虚,谦卑,谦逊的态度simpleness简单性,简单化,简单,简化simplicity简单性,简易性,简单,简洁unassumingness不透明性,不透明,不明就里,不明朗unpretentiousness朴实无华,淳朴,朴素,朴实economicalness经济性,经济效益,节约性,经济实惠unostentatiousness毫不夸张的说,毫不夸张地说,毫不夸张,毫不夸张地

Examples

  • Perhaps because they are nocturnal and well camouflaged, colugos live hidden in plain sight.

  • What’s plain is no matter where you are in the US, the risk isn’t zero.

  • Yet another way up is hidden in plain sight –– it’s called Tranquility Cracks for a reason.

  • You can learn more about plain language by clicking on the blue link.

  • Rebecca Monteleone translated this story into plain language.

  • This didn't seem like the old, subservient Jim she was familiar with and she disliked his plainness of speech.

  • The extreme plainness of her dress lent an air of austerity to her face, and her features were proud and grave.

  • It was the same naked truth that in his novels he himself presented with the utmost plainness and boldness to the British public.

  • It was perhaps to conceal this plainness that he wore it very short.

  • It is his first duty to deliver his message with a plainness that defies misunderstanding.

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