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plainly

adv
/ˈpleɪnli/

Etymology

From Middle English playnly, pleinly, pleyneliche, equivalent to plain + -ly.

  1. inherited from playnly

Definitions

  1. In a plain manner

    In a plain manner; simply; basically.

    • She decorated the room plainly but neatly.
    • 'Tell me plainly what you think of my daughter's little companion.'

  2. Obviously

    Obviously; clearly.

    • You will see that ours is plainly the better method.
    • Plainly he was prepared to bark out an interminable succession of charges against the Wanderer.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at plainly. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at plainly. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at plainly

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA