plain

A minimalist, desaturated image of a vast, flat plain stretching to the horizon.
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A minimalist, desaturated image of a vast, flat plain stretching to the horizon.

This image emphasizes the 'flat, level' and 'simple, unaltered' definitions of 'plain' by depicting a vast, flat expanse of land with minimal features. The addition of 'minimalist' and 'desaturated' further reinforces the concept of simplicity and lack of ornamentation.

  1. adj — plainer; plainest
    1. Flat, level.
    2. Simple, unaltered.
      • He was dressed simply in plain black clothes.
      • a plain tune
      • a plain pink polycotton skirt
      • They're just plain people like you or me.
      • plain yet pious Christians
      • the plain people
      • Would you like a poppy bagel or a plain bagel?
    3. Obvious.
      • His answer was just plain nonsense.
    4. Open.
      • Let me be plain with you: I don't like her.
      • Our troops beat an army in plain fight.
    5. Not unusually beautiful; unattractive.
      • Yet her beauty clung to her like an identity she was trying to deny and her plainness kept slipping like a bad disguise.
      • Throughout high school she worried that she had a rather plain face.
    6. Not a trump.
  2. adv
    1. Simply.
      • It was just plain stupid.
      • I plain forgot.
    2. Plainly; distinctly.
      • Tell me plain: do you love me or no?
  3. noun — plains
    1. An expanse of land with relatively low relief and few trees, especially a grassy expanse.
    2. A broad, flat expanse in general, as of water.
  4. verb — plains; plaining; plained
    1. To level; to raze; to make plain or even on the surface.
      • We would rake Europe rather, plain the East;
    2. To make plain or manifest; to explain.
  5. noun — plains
    1. A lamentation.
      • The warrior-threat, the infant's plain, The mother's screams, were heard in vain;
  6. verb — plains; plaining; plained
    1. To complain.
    2. To lament, bewail.
      • to plain a loss
      • Then came I crying, and to-day, / With heavier cause to plain, / Depart I into death away, / Not to be born again.
  7. adj — plainer; plainest
    1. Full, complete in number or extent.
Derivatives peneplain plainly plainness plainsong