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clear or distinct; easily understood; straightforward; ordinary; unadorned; simple; not beautiful; clearly and simply; level area of land

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Usage examples (33)
  • You could hardly have it in plainer terms than that.
  • Could it be the non-teleological prism at work, in plainer sight for all to see?
  • The stronger the vital force, the plainer will be the perception of the phenomenon.
  • Some copies were handsomely bound; the plainer were the more in request, and many were bought.
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