plain

/pleɪn/

US pronunciation

American sound/pleɪn/

plain

Syllables: 1 syllable
Stress: One strong syllable
Vowel: Short i vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

US voice -> plain

Myanmar meaning

(adj) ပေါ်လွင် (n) လွင်ပြင်

Full entry

plain /pleÇn/ adj (-er, -est)

၁။ ပေါ်လွင် [သော]။ ပေါ်ပေါ်ထင်ထင် [ဖြစ်သော]။ ပြတ်ပြတ်သားသား [ပြောသော]။ The markings along the route are quite plain. ❍ He made it plain (to us) that we should leave. ❍ She made her annoyance plain. ❍ There is no more money–do I make myself plain?
၂။ တဲ့တိုး၊ မကွယ်မထောင့်၊ ဗြောင် [ပြောသော]။ The plain truth/fact is I don't want to go. ❍ a politician with a reputation for plain speaking.
၃။ (က) ရိုးစင်းသော။ a plain but very elegant dress ❍ plain food/cooking ❍ plain cake (eg without fruit). (ခ) ဗြောင်။ ဗလာ။ plain fabric/wallpaper/tiles ❍ write on plain paper (ie without lines).
၄။ သာမန်။ ရိုးရိုး။ You don't need any special skills for this job, just plain common sense. ❍ I don't use a word processor, just a plain, old-fashioned typewriter.
၅။ (derog ) ရွက်ကြမ်းရေကျိုမျှ ဖြစ်သော (ရုပ်ရည်ရှိ သည့်မိန်းမ)။
n မြေပြန့်လွင်ပြင်။ ride across the vast, grassy plain ❍ the Great Plains of the American Midwest.
adv (infml ) သက်သက်။ လုံးလုံး။ That is just plain stupid.
❏ in plain English [IDM ] ရိုးရိုးရှင်းရှင်း။ a document written in plain English.
❏ (as) plain as a pikestaff; (Brit ) as plain as the nose on one's face [IDM ] (Brit ) သိသာလွန်းသော။ ကွက်ကွက် ကွင်းကွင်းဖြစ်သော။
❏ plain chocolate n [U] (ခါးသက်သက်အရသာရှိသော) ချောကလက်သက်သက်။ Compare MILK CHOCOLATE
❏ plain clothes n အရပ်ဝတ်အရပ်စား။ The policemen were in plain clothes.
adj အရပ်ဝတ်အရပ်စားဝတ်။ a plain-clothes detective.
❏ plain flour n [U] [တဆေးမပါသော] ဂျုံမှုန့်။ Compare SELF-RAISING FLOUR
❏ plainly adv
(က) သိသိသာသာ။ He plainly intended to ignore my advice. ❍ There is plainly a need for more consultation. ❍ That is plainly absurd. ❍ Plainly, my presence was unwelcome.
(ခ) အလွယ်တကူ။ ထင်ထင် ရှားရှား။ The mountain tops are plainly visible from the village. plainness n [U]
❏ plain sailing [IDM ] အထစ်အငေါ့မရှိ ဖြောင့်ဖြောင့် ဖြူးဖြူးဖြစ်ခြင်း။ Once the design problems were solved, it was all/everything was plain sailing.
plaid /plæd/ n
၁။ [C] စကော့လူမျိုးတို့၏ တိုင်းရင်းသား ဝတ်စုံ၏ တစ်စိတ်တစ်ပိုင်းဖြစ်သော သိုးမွေးတဘက်။
၂။ [U] စကော့လူမျိုး မျိုးနွယ်စုအလိုက်ဝတ်သော အကွက်ဆင်။ a plaid jacket/skirt.

More examples

Hugh’s message was short, but the meaning was plain enough.
[it is plain (that)] : It was plain that they knew each other already.
[it is plain to someone (that)] : It was plain to everyone that Maude was not happy.
[make it plain] : Therese made it plain that she would not help Robert any more.
[be plain to see] : Her disappointment was plain to see.
A plain wooden table
The gardens were fairly plain, with few plants.
A plain white T-shirt
We sell a selection of plain and patterned ties.
A plain sponge cake
Plain yoghurt
The restaurant serves plain wholesome food.
He seems to go for plain quiet women.
It’s just plain Mr Cunningham now, no need to call me Doctor.
A plain answer
[plain speaking/talking] : She was admired for her plain speaking.

Synonyms

simple, basic, unadorned, natural, pure, bare, abrupt, apparent, artless, audible, austere, average, bald, bare bones, big as life, blatant, blunt, broad, candid, champaign, clean, clear, common, commonplace, comprehensible, conventional, definite, deformed, delta, direct, discreet, distinct, dry, dull, everyday, evident, expanse, fen, field, flat, flatland, floodplain, forthright, frank, grassland, guileless, hard on the eyes, heath, homely, honest, impolite, ingenuous, legible, level, level land, lowland, lowly, lucid, manifest, marsh, meadow, mesa, modest, moor, moorland, mudflat, muted, normal, not beautiful, obvious, open, open country, open-and-shut, ordinary, outspoken, palpable, patent, plain-featured, plateau, prairie, pronounced, quotidian, restrained, routine, rude, severe, sincere, spartan, stark, steppe, straightforward, stripped down, swamp, tableland, talking turkey, tangible, traditional, transparent, tundra, ugly, unambiguous, unappealing, unattractive, understandable, unembellished, unmistakable, unvarnished, upland, usual, valley, vanilla, visible, water meadow, wetland, white-bread, workaday

Antonyms