(คัมเพลน') {complained,complaining,complains} vi. บ่น,คร่ำครวญ,ร้องทุกข์,กล่าวหา,ฟ้อง,แสดงความข้องใจ, See also: complainer n. ดูcomplain, Syn. murmur,lament
[ごねどく, gonedoku] (n) (col) getting what one wants by complaining or grumbling; profiting by holding out or taking a hard line; getting more by raising a ruckus [Add to Longdo]
[, sappari] (adj-na,adv,n,vs,adv-to) (1) (on-mim) feeling refreshed; feeling relieved; (2) neat; trimmed; (3) plain; simple; (4) (See さっぱり分らない) completely; entirely; (5) not in the least (in sentence with negative verb); not at all; (n) (6) completely ignorant; not doing at all; (P) [Add to Longdo]
[, sukkiri] (adv,adv-to,vs) (1) (on-mim) (See さっぱり) clearly; refreshed; (2) shapely; neatly; refinedly; (3) cleanly; without trouble; (4) (See はっきり) clearly; plainly; distinctly; (5) (See すっかり) completely; thoroughly; (6) (See さっぱり) not at all (with negative sentence); not even slightly; (P) [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (7 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Plain \Plain\, v. t.
To lament; to mourn over; as, to plain a loss. [Archaic &
Poetic] --Sir J. Harrington.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Plain \Plain\, a. [Compar. {Plainer}; superl. {Plainest}.] [F.,
level, flat, fr. L. planus, perhaps akin to E. floor. Cf.
{Llano}, {Piano}, {Plan}, {Plane} level, a level surface.]
1. Without elevations or depressions; flat; level; smooth;
even. See {Plane}.
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The crooked shall be made straight, and the rough
places plain. --Isa. xl. 4.
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2. Open; clear; unencumbered; equal; fair.
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Our troops beat an army in plain fight. --Felton.
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3. Not intricate or difficult; evident; manifest; obvious;
clear; unmistakable. "'T is a plain case." --Shak.
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4.
(a) Void of extraneous beauty or ornament; without
conspicious embellishment; not rich; simple.
(b) Not highly cultivated; unsophisticated; free from show
or pretension; simple; natural; homely; common. "Plain
yet pious Christians." --Hammond. "The plain people."
--A. Lincoln.
(c) Free from affectation or disguise; candid; sincere;
artless; honest; frank. "An honest mind, and plain."
--Shak.
(d) Not luxurious; not highly seasoned; simple; as, plain
food.
(e) Without beauty; not handsome; homely; as, a plain
woman.
(f) Not variegated, dyed, or figured; as, plain muslin.
(g) Not much varied by modulations; as, a plain tune.
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{Plain battle}, open battle; pitched battle. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
{Plain chant} (Mus.) Same as {Plain song}, below.
{Plain chart} (Naut.), a chart laid down on Mercator's
projection.
{Plain dealer}.
(a) One who practices plain dealing.
(b) A simpleton. [Obs.] --Shak.
{Plain dealing}. See under {Dealing}.
{Plain molding} (Join.), molding of which the surfaces are
plain figures.
{Plain sewing}, sewing of seams by simple and common
stitches, in distinct from fancy work, embroidery, etc.;
-- distinguished also from designing and fitting garments.
{Plain song}.
(a) The Gregorian chant, or {canto fermo}; the prescribed
melody of the Roman Catholic service, sung in unison,
in tones of equal length, and rarely extending beyond
the compass of an octave.
(b) A simple melody.
{Plain speaking}, plainness or bluntness of speech.
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Syn: Level; flat; smooth; open; artless; unaffected;
undisguised; frank; sincere; honest; candid; ingenuous;
unembellished; downright; blunt; clear; simple;
distinct; manifest; obvious; apparent. See {Manifest}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Plain \Plain\, v. i. [OE. playne, pleyne, fr. F. plaindre. See
{Plaint}.]
To lament; to bewail; to complain. [Archaic & Poetic]
--Milton.
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We with piteous heart unto you pleyne. --Chaucer.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Plain \Plain\, adv.
In a plain manner; plainly. "To speak short and pleyn."
--Chaucer. "To tell you plain." --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Plain \Plain\, n. [Cf. OF. plaigne, F. plaine. See {Plain}, a.]
1. Level land; usually, an open field or a broad stretch of
land with an even surface, or a surface little varied by
inequalities; as, the plain of Jordan; the American
plains, or prairies.
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Descending fro the mountain into playn. --Chaucer.
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Him the Ammonite
Worshiped in Rabba and her watery plain. --Milton.
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2. A field of battle. [Obs.] --Arbuthnot.
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Lead forth my soldiers to the plain. --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Plain \Plain\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Plained}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Plaining}.] [Cf. {Plane}, v.]
1. To plane or level; to make plain or even on the surface.
[R.]
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We would rake Europe rather, plain the East.
--Wither.
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2. To make plain or manifest; to explain.
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What's dumb in show, I'll plain in speech. --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
plain
adv 1: unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for
`plainly'); "the answer is obviously wrong"; "she was in
bed and evidently in great pain"; "he was manifestly too
important to leave off the guest list"; "it is all
patently nonsense"; "she has apparently been living here
for some time"; "I thought he owned the property, but
apparently not"; "You are plainly wrong"; "he is plain
stubborn" [syn: {obviously}, {evidently}, {manifestly},
{patently}, {apparently}, {plainly}, {plain}]
adj 1: clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment;
"the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who
sees the parched fields"; "evident hostility"; "manifest
disapproval"; "patent advantages"; "made his meaning
plain"; "it is plain that he is no reactionary"; "in
plain view" [syn: {apparent}, {evident}, {manifest},
{patent}, {plain}, {unmistakable}]
2: not elaborate or elaborated; simple; "plain food"; "stuck to
the plain facts"; "a plain blue suit"; "a plain rectangular
brick building" [ant: {fancy}]
3: lacking patterns especially in color [syn: {plain},
{unpatterned}] [ant: {patterned}]
4: not mixed with extraneous elements; "plain water"; "sheer
wine"; "not an unmixed blessing" [syn: {plain}, {sheer},
{unmingled}, {unmixed}]
5: free from any effort to soften to disguise; "the plain and
unvarnished truth"; "the unvarnished candor of old people and
children" [syn: {plain}, {unvarnished}]
6: lacking embellishment or ornamentation; "a plain hair style";
"unembellished white walls"; "functional architecture
featuring stark unornamented concrete" [syn: {plain}, {bare},
{spare}, {unembellished}, {unornamented}]
7: lacking in physical beauty or proportion; "a homely child";
"several of the buildings were downright homely"; "a plain
girl with a freckled face" [syn: {homely}, {plain}]
n 1: extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the
woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of
his youth" [syn: {plain}, {field}, {champaign}]
2: a basic knitting stitch [syn: {knit}, {knit stitch}, {plain},
{plain stitch}]
v 1: express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or
unhappiness; "My mother complains all day"; "She has a lot
to kick about" [syn: {complain}, {kick}, {plain}, {sound
off}, {quetch}, {kvetch}] [ant: {cheer}, {cheer up}, {chirk
up}]
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