THESAURUS
Spartan, arcadian, ascetic, austere, bald, bare, basic, blank, bucolic, candid, chaste, common, commonplace, direct, dry, dull, elementary, essential, frank, fundamental, genuine, homely, homespun, homogeneous, inartificial, indivisible, irreducible, lean, matter-of-fact, mere, monolithic, naked, native, natural, naturelike, neat, nude, of a piece, open, pastoral, plain, plain-speaking, plain-spoken, primal, primary, prosaic, prosing, prosy, pure, pure and simple, rural, rustic, severe, sheer, simon-pure, simple, simple-speaking, single, sober, spare, stark, straightforward, unadulterated, unaffected, unarrayed, unartificial, unassuming, uncluttered, uncomplicated, undecked, undecorated, undesigning, undifferenced, undifferentiated, undisguising, undissembling, undissimulating, undressed, unelaborate, unembellished, unenhanced, unfeigning, unfurbished, ungarnished, uniform, unimaginative, unornamented, unostentatious, unpoetical, unpretending, unpretentious, unsophisticated, unspoiled, untrimmed, unvarnished
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Plainness
N
plainness, simplicity, severity, plain terms, plain English, Saxon English, household words, plain, simple, unornamented,
unadorned, unvarnished, homely, homespun, neat, severe, chaste, pure, Saxon, commonplace, matter-of- fact, natural, prosaic, dry, unvaried, monotonous, in plain terms, in plain words, in plain English, in plain common parlance, point-blank.
Simplicity
N
simplicity, plainness, homeliness, undress, chastity, simple, plain, homely, homespun, ordinary, household, unaffected, ingenuous, sincere (artless), free from affectation, free from ornament, simplex munditiis, sans facon, en deshabille, chaste, inornate, severe,
unadorned, bare, unornamented, undecked, ungarnished, unarranged, untrimmed, unvarnished, bald, flat, dull, veritatis simplex oratio est.
