Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Plainness

Nouns
  • plainness etc. adj.
  • simplicity, severity
  • plain terms, plain English
  • Saxon English
  • household words
Verbs
  • call a spade 'a spade'
  • " plunge in medias res
  • come to the point.
Adjectives
  • plain, simple
  • unornamented, unadorned, unvarnished
  • homely, homespun
  • neat
  • severe, chaste, pure, Saxon
  • commonplace, matter-of-fact, natural, prosaic. dry, unvaried, monotonous etc. Feebleness.
Adverbs
  • in plain terms, in plain words, in plain English, in plain common parlance
  • point-blank.