| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
| |
| Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties | | Division (II) Communication of Ideas | | Section III. Means of Communicating Ideas |
| Various Qualities of Style |
| |
| 576. Plainness. |
| |
| | |
| NOUN: | PLAINNESS &c. adj.; simplicity, simplex munditiis [Hor.], lack of ornamentation, severity; plain -terms, - English; Saxon English; household words.
|
| | |
| VERB: | SPEAK PLAINLY, waste no words, call a spade a spade; plunge in medias res [L.]; come to the point.
|
| | |
| ADJECTIVE: | PLAIN, simple; unornamented, unadorned, unvarnished; homely, homespun; neat; severe, chaste, pure, Saxon; commonplace, matter-of-fact, natural, prosaic, sober, unimaginative.
DRY, unvaried, monotonous [See Feebleness].
|
| | |
| ADVERB: | POINT-BLANK; in plain -terms, - words, - English; in common parlance.
|
|
|
