Crossword-Solution: PLAIN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Plain | v. i. | To lament; to bewail; to complain. |
| Plain | v. t. | To lament; to mourn over; as, to plain a loss. |
| Plain | superl. | Without elevations or depressions; flat; level; smooth; even. See Plane. |
| Plain | superl. | Open; clear; unencumbered; equal; fair. |
| Plain | superl. | Not intricate or difficult; evident; manifest; obvious; clear; unmistakable. |
| Plain | superl. | Void of extraneous beauty or ornament; without conspicious embellishment; not rich; simple. |
| Plain | superl. | Not highly cultivated; unsophisticated; free from show or pretension; simple; natural; homely; common. |
| Plain | superl. | Free from affectation or disguise; candid; sincere; artless; honest; frank. |
| Plain | superl. | Not luxurious; not highly seasoned; simple; as, plain food. |
| Plain | superl. | Without beauty; not handsome; homely; as, a plain woman. |
| Plain | superl. | Not variegated, dyed, or figured; as, plain muslin. |
| Plain | superl. | Not much varied by modulations; as, a plain tune. |
| Plain | adv. | In a plain manner; plainly. |
| Plain | a. | Level land; usually, an open field or a broad stretch of land with an even surface, or a surface little varied by inequalities; as, the plain of Jordan; the American plains, or prairies. |
| Plain | a. | A field of battle. |
| Plain | v. | To plane or level; to make plain or even on the surface. |
| Plain | v. | To make plain or manifest; to explain. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PLAIN | anagram | ALPIN, LAPIN, LIPAN, PALIN, PALNI, PLANI |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with PLAIN (5)
Through the forest, wide and wailing, Roamed the hunter on his snow-shoes; In the village worked the women, Pounded maize, or dressed the deer-skin; And the young men played together On the ice the noisy ball-play, On the plain the dance of snow-shoes.
Seest thou yon dreary Plain, forlorn and wilde, The seat of desolation, voyd of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful? Thither let us tend From off the tossing of these fiery waves, There rest, if any rest can harbour there, And reassembling our afflicted Powers, Consult how we may henceforth most offend Our Enemy, our own loss how repair, How overcome this dire Calamity, What reinforcement we may gain from Hope, If not what resolution from despare.
The Ass, as long as he traveled along the plain, carried his load with ease, but when he began to ascend the steep path of the mountain, felt his load to be more than he could bear.
Whether this prophecy is ever fulfilled or not, it is nevertheless plain that a very different-looking class of people are springing up at the south, and are now held in slavery, from those originally brought to this country from Africa; and if their increase do no other good, it will do away the force of the argument, that God cursed Ham, and therefore American slavery is right.
The dwelling-houses were set about haphazard on the tough prairie sod; some of them looked as if they had been moved in overnight, and others as if they were straying off by themselves, headed straight for the open plain.
Quotes with PLAIN (3)
Dying is overrated. Human sentimentality has twisted it into the ultimate act of love. Biggest load of bullshit in the world. Dying for someone isn't the hard thing. The man that dies escapes. Plain and simple. Game over. End of pain... Try living for someone. Through it all-good, bad, thick, thin, joy, suffering. That's the hard thing.
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.
There can be, if I forebode aright, no power, short of the Divine mercy, to disclose, whether by uttered words, or by type or emblem, the secrets that may be buried with a human heart. The heart, making itself guilty of such secrets, must perforce hold them, until the day when all hidden things shall be revealed. Nor have I so read or interpreted the Holy Writ, as to understand that the disclosure of human thoughts and deeds, then to be made, is intended as part of the retrib…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 162 times in crossword archives (1952–2024).