Engelsk ordbog
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Engelsk tillægsord: plain | |||
| 1. | plain clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment | ||
| Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | 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. | ||
| Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | apparent, evident, manifest, patent, unmistakable | ||
| Termer med lignende betydning | obvious | ||
| Termer med modsat betydning (antonymer) | unobvious | ||
| 2. | plain not elaborate or elaborated; simple | ||
| Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | Plain food. Stuck to the plain facts. A plain blue suit. A plain rectangular brick building. | ||
| Termer med lignende betydning | austere, bare, chaste, dry, dry, featureless, homely, inelaborate, literal, mere, severe, simple, simple, stark, stern, tailored, trim, unelaborate, vanilla | ||
| Se også | simple, unadorned, undecorated, unpretentious, unrhetorical | ||
| Termer med modsat betydning (antonymer) | fancy | ||
| 3. | plain lacking patterns especially in color | ||
| Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | unpatterned | ||
| Termer med lignende betydning | solid-colored, solid-coloured | ||
| Termer med modsat betydning (antonymer) | patterned | ||
| 4. | plain not mixed with extraneous elements | ||
| Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | Plain water. Sheer wine. Not an unmixed blessing. | ||
| Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | sheer, unmingled, unmixed | ||
| Termer med lignende betydning | pure | ||
| Termer med modsat betydning (antonymer) | impure | ||
| 5. | plain free from any effort to soften to disguise | ||
| Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | The plain and unvarnished truth. The unvarnished candor of old people and children. | ||
| Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | unvarnished | ||
| Termer med lignende betydning | direct | ||
| Termer med modsat betydning (antonymer) | indirect | ||
| 6. | plain lacking embellishment or ornamentation | ||
| Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | A plain hair style. Unembellished white walls. Functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete. | ||
| Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | bare, spare, unembellished, unornamented | ||
| Termer med lignende betydning | unadorned, undecorated | ||
| Termer med modsat betydning (antonymer) | adorned, decorated | ||
| 7. | plain lacking in physical beauty or proportion | ||
| Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | A homely child. Several of the buildings were downright homely. A plain girl with a freckled face. | ||
| Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | homely | ||
| Termer med lignende betydning | unattractive | ||
| Termer med modsat betydning (antonymer) | attractive | ||
Engelsk navneord: plain | |||
| 1. | plain (om ting) extensive tract of level open land | ||
| Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | They emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain. He longed for the fields of his youth. | ||
| Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | champaign, field | ||
| Mindre specifikke termer | dry land, earth, ground, land, solid ground, terra firma | ||
| Mere specifikke termer | flat, flood plain, floodplain, llano, moor, moorland, peneplain, peneplane, snowfield, steppe, tundra | ||
| Eksempler på forekomster af mere specifikke termer | Nullarbor Plain, Olympia, Serengeti, Serengeti Plain | ||
| 2. | plain (om genstand) a basic knitting stitch | ||
| Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | knit, knit stitch, plain stitch | ||
| Mindre specifikke termer | knitting stitch | ||
Engelsk biord: plain | |||
| 1. | plain unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly') | ||
| Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | 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 apparently been living here for some time. I thought he owned the property, but apparently not. You are plainly wrong. He is plain stubborn. | ||
| Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | apparently, evidently, manifestly, obviously, patently, plainly | ||
| Overordnet anvendelse | colloquialism | ||
Engelsk udsagnsord: plain | |||
| 1. | plain (om kommunikation) express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness | ||
| Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | My mother complains all day. She has a lot to kick about. | ||
| Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | complain, kick, kvetch, quetch, sound off | ||
| Anvendelsesmønster | Somebody ----s. Somebody ----s that CLAUSE | ||
| Mere specifikke termer | backbite, beef, bellyache, bemoan, bewail, bitch, bitch, bleat, crab, croak, deplore, gnarl, gripe, grizzle, grouch, grouse, grumble, grumble, hen-peck, holler, inveigh, lament, murmur, mutter, nag, peck, protest, rail, repine, report, scold, squawk, whine, yammer, yawp | ||
| Termer med modsat betydning (antonymer) | chirk up, cheer up, cheer | ||
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