plain

/pleɪn/

意味: 平原

例文: Haruki camped on the windy plain.
　　  ハルキは風の強い平原でキャンプした。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: plain language(簡単な言葉), plain clothes(普段着), plain fact(明白な事実)

定義: 明白な、簡単な、飾りのない、普通の、平らな、特に装飾や模様がないことを指します。例えば、食べ物や服がシンプルであること、または言葉や事実が分かりやすいことを表します。

plainは約40,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: extensive tract of level open land
Noun: a basic knitting stitch
Verb: express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness
Adjective: clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment
Adjective: not elaborate or elaborated; simple
Adjective: lacking patterns especially in color
Adjective: not mixed with extraneous elements
Adjective: free from any effort to soften to disguise
Adjective: lacking embellishment or ornamentation
Adjective: lacking in physical beauty or proportion
Adverb: unmistakably (`plain’ is often used informally for `plainly’)

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb, Adjective, Adverb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The landscape was a vast, open plain.(風景は広大な平原だった。)
She wore a plain dress to the party.(彼女はパーティーに地味なドレスを着ていた。)
His explanation was clear and plain to understand.(彼の説明は明快で分かりやすかった。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain
Noun: he longed for the fields of his youth
Verb: My mother complains all day
Verb: She has a lot to kick about
Adjective: the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields
Adjective: evident hostility
Adjective: manifest disapproval
Adjective: patent advantages
Adjective: made his meaning plain
Adjective: it is plain that he is no reactionary
Adjective: in plain view
Adjective: plain food
Adjective: stuck to the plain facts
Adjective: a plain blue suit
Adjective: a plain rectangular brick building
Adjective: plain water
Adjective: sheer wine
Adjective: not an unmixed blessing
Adjective: the plain and unvarnished truth
Adjective: the unvarnished candor of old people and children
Adjective: a plain hair style
Adjective: unembellished white walls
Adjective: functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete
Adjective: a homely child
Adjective: several of the buildings were downright homely
Adjective: a plain girl with a freckled face
Adverb: the answer is obviously wrong
Adverb: she was in bed and evidently in great pain
Adverb: he was manifestly too important to leave off the guest list
Adverb: it is all patently nonsense
Adverb: she has apparently been living here for some time
Adverb: I thought he owned the property, but apparently not
Adverb: You are plainly wrong
Adverb: he is plain stubborn

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): apparent, apparently, bare, champaign, complain, evident, evidently, field, homely, kick, knit, knit stitch, kvetch, manifest, manifestly, obviously, patent, patently, plain, plain stitch, plainly, quetch, sheer, sound off, spare, unembellished, unmingled, unmistakable, unmixed, unornamented, unpatterned, unvarnished

Antonyms(反意語): cheer, fancy, patterned

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): knitting stitch, land

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): archipelago, beachfront, cape, coastal plain, floor, foreland, forest, garter stitch, island, isthmus, knit, landmass, mainland, neck, oxbow, peninsula, plain, purl, slash, stockinette stitch, wonderland

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): backbite, bleat, deplore, flat, floodplain, gripe, grouch, llano, moor, murmur, nag, peneplain, protest, rail, repine, report, snowfield, steppe, tundra, whine

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: apparency, apparentness, appear, complainer, complaint, evidence, homeliness, kick, knit, patency, plainness

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: literary

Usage Context: conversation, descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
transitive verb
countable noun
comparative-more

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

高校レベル

英検2級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Atomic Habits

Movies(映画): The Bad Guys

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) No

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

Emotion Categories: