Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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.