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Flachland

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Englisch > Deutsch
plain
1. schlicht
Englisch > Englisch
plain
1. adj. (now rare, regional) Flat, level.
2. adj. Simple.
3. adj. Ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation; unembellished.
He was dressed simply in plain black clothes.
a plain tune
4. adj. Of just one colour; lacking a pattern.
a plain pink polycotton skirt
5. adj. Simple in habits or qualities; unsophisticated, not exceptional, ordinary.
They're just plain people like you or me.
6. adj. (of food) Having only few ingredients, or no additional ingredients or seasonings; not elaborate, without toppings or extras.
Would you like a poppy bagel or a plain bagel?
7. adj. (computing) Containing no extended or nonprinting characters (especially in plain text).
8. adj. Obvious.
9. adj. Evident to one's senses or reason; manifest, clear, unmistakable.
10. adj. Downright; total, unmistakable (as intensifier).
His answer was just plain nonsense.
11. adj. Open.
12. adj. Honest and without deception; candid, open; blunt.
Let me be plain with you: I don't like her.
13. adj. Clear; unencumbered; equal; fair.
14. adj. Not unusually beautiful; unattractive.
Throughout high school she worried that she had a rather plain face.
15. adv. (colloquial) Simply
It was just plain stupid.
I plain forgot.
16. subst. (rare, poetic) A lamentation.
17. v. (reflexive, obsolete) To complain.
18. v. (ambitransitive, now rare, poetic) To lament, bewail.
to plain a loss
19. subst. An expanse of land with relatively low relief.
20. subst. A battlefield.
21. subst. (obsolete) A plane.
22. v. (obsolete, transitive) To level; to raze; to make plain or even on the surface.
23. v. (obsolete, transitive) To make plain or manifest; to explain.
Deutsch > Englisch
Flachland
1. subst. flatland, plain