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How to sign: clearly apparent or obvious to the mind or senses
"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 reac;
Similiar / Same: apparent, evident, manifest, patent
How to sign: extensive tract of level open land
"they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of his youth";
Similiar / Same: champaign, field
Categories: dry land, earth, ground, land, solid ground, terra firma
Within this category: flat, floodplain, llano, moor, Nullarbor Plain, Olympia, peneplain, snowfield, steppe, tundra
How to sign: unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly')
"the answer is obviously wrong"; "she was in bed and evidently in great pain"; "he was manifestly too important to leave off the guest list"; "it is all patently nonsense"; "she has apparent;
Similiar / Same: obviously, evidently, manifestly, patently, plainly, apparently
How to sign: not elaborate or elaborated; simple
"plain food"; "stuck to the plain facts"; "a plain blue suit"; "a plain rectangular brick building";
See also: simple, unadorned, undecorated, unrhetorical, unpretentious
How to sign: not mixed with extraneous elements
"plain water"; "sheer wine"; "not an unmixed blessing";
Similiar / Same: unmingled, sheer, unmixed
How to sign: lacking embellishment or ornamentation
"a plain hair style"; "unembellished white walls"; "functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete";
Similiar / Same: unornamented, unembellished
