"plain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

plain adjetivo

plain + sustantivo

Kolokacji: 141

plain sight • plain view • plain clothes • plain English • plain language • plain text • plain water • plain fact • plain truth • plain dress • ...

verbo + plain

Kolokacji: 3

make plain • serve plain • look plain

adverbio + plain

Kolokacji: 6

perfectly plain • fairly plain • relatively plain • equally plain • pretty plain • ...

Grup znaczeniowych: 2

Kolokacji: 4

1. perfectly plain = zupełnie prosty perfectly plain

2. relatively plain = stosunkowo prosty relatively plain

3. equally plain = tak samo prosty equally plain

4. deceptively plain = pozornie prosty deceptively plain

That's the deceptively plain title of the Museum of Modern Art's ambitious, vast, sometimes delirious retrospective beginning today and running through Oct. 3.
Mr. Marshall made Lincoln's deceptively plain eloquence come alive by saying the words rather than declaiming them in the usual stagy fashion.
Its deceptively plain walls concealed spy devices and automatic weapons.
The deceptively plain mahogany table has a top that tilts up to form a writing surface.
South of the Zenana Enclosure, the Queen's Bath is deceptively plain on the outside but amazing within.
His menu lists one main ingredient for each dish in capital letters, creating a deceptively plain impression.
David Howard's moody lighting was another fine ingredient, as were Ruth Keller's deceptively plain costumes.
Tony Walton's deceptively plain scenic design, which affords three suitably crabbed playing areas, and Richard Pilbrow's lighting well serve the production.
In other words, deceptively plain - though never quite as flat as its English translations, including this one, make it sound.
Mostly the prose shuns decoration, preferring to present the action in a deceptively plain fashion.

(2) fairly, pretty

Kolokacji: 2

plain + preposición

Kolokacji: 5

plain to • plain in • plain for • plain with • plain on

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