· clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment; "the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields"; "evident hostility"; "manifest disapproval"; "patent advantages"; "made his meaning plain"; "it is plain that he is no reactionary"; "in plain view"; "a palpable lie"

Synonym(s): apparent, evident, manifest, palpable, patent, unmistakable

· not elaborate or elaborated; simple; "plain food"; "stuck to the plain facts"; "a plain blue suit"; "a plain rectangular brick building"

Antonym(s): fancy

· lacking patterns especially in color

Synonym(s): unpatterned

Antonym(s): patterned

· not mixed with extraneous elements; "plain water"; "sheer wine"; "not an unmixed blessing"

Synonym(s): sheer, unmingled, unmixed

· free from any effort to soften to disguise; "the plain and unvarnished truth"; "the unvarnished candor of old people and children"

Synonym(s): unvarnished

· lacking embellishment or ornamentation; "a plain hair style"; "unembellished white walls"; "functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete"

Synonym(s): bare, spare, unembellished, unornamented

· lacking in physical beauty or proportion; "a homely child"; "several of the buildings were downright homely"; "a plain girl with a freckled face"

Synonym(s): homely