Usually means: Most simple, unadorned, or clear.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. plainest: Merriam-Webster
  2. plainest: Collins English Dictionary
  3. plainest: Vocabulary.com
  4. plainest: Wordnik
  5. plainest: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. plainest: Wiktionary
  7. Plainest, plainest: Dictionary.com
  8. plainest: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. plainest: FreeDictionary.org
  10. plainest: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. plainest: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. plainest: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. plainest: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. plainest: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (plain)

adjective:  (now rare, regional) Flat, level.
adjective:  Simple, unaltered.
adjective:  Ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation; unembellished.
adjective:  Of just one colour; lacking a pattern.
adjective:  Simple in habits or qualities; unsophisticated, not exceptional, ordinary.
adjective:  (of food) Having only few ingredients, or no additional ingredients or seasonings; not elaborate, without toppings or extras.
adjective:  (computing) Containing no extended or nonprinting characters (especially in plain text).
adjective:  Obvious.
adjective:  Evident to one's senses or reason; manifest, clear, unmistakable.
adjective:  Downright; total, unmistakable (as intensifier).
adjective:  Open.
adjective:  Honest and without deception; candid, open; blunt.
adjective:  Clear; unencumbered; equal; fair.
adjective:  Not unusually beautiful; unattractive.
adjective:  (card games) Not a trump.
adverb:  (colloquial) Simply.
adverb:  (archaic) Plainly; distinctly.
noun:  An expanse of land with relatively low relief and few trees, especially a grassy expanse.
noun:  A broad, flat expanse in general, as of water.
noun:  (archaic) Synonym of field in reference to a battlefield.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To level; to raze; to make plain or even on the surface.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To make plain or manifest; to explain.
noun:  (rare, poetic) A lamentation.
verb:  (reflexive, obsolete) To complain.
verb:  (ambitransitive, now rare, poetic) To lament, bewail.
adjective:  (obsolete) Full, complete in number or extent.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (obsolete) Alternative spelling of plane: a flat geometric field. [A level or flat surface.]
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