bleat vs plain
plain vs bleatbleat and plain both are nouns.
bleat is not an adjective while plain is an adjective.
bleat and plain both are verbs.
bleat is not an adverb while plain is an adverb.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| bleat | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| plain | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
As verbs,
plain is a hypernym of
bleat; that is, plain is a
word with a broader meaning than bleat:
- bleat: talk whiningly
- plain: express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness
| bleat (noun) | plain (noun) |
|---|---|
| the sound of sheep or goats (or any sound resembling this) | a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the lefthand side |
| extensive tract of level open land |
| bleat (adjective) | plain (adjective) |
|---|---|
| not elaborate or elaborated; simple | |
| lacking patterns especially in color | |
| free from any effort to soften to disguise | |
| clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment | |
| not mixed with extraneous elements | |
| lacking embellishment or ornamentation | |
| lacking in physical beauty or proportion |
| bleat (verb) | plain (verb) |
|---|---|
| cry plaintively | express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness |
| talk whiningly |
| bleat (adverb) | plain (adverb) |
|---|---|
| unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly') |
Words related to "bleat"
Words related to "plain"
- Nullarbor Plain
- Olympia
- Serengeti
- Serengeti Plain
- apparent
- apparently
- austere
- backbite
- bare
- beef
- bellyache
- bemoan
- bewail
- bitch
- bleat
- champaign
- chaste
- colloquialism
- complain
- crab
- croak
- deplore
- depreciation
- derogation
- direct
- disparagement
- dry
- dry land
- earth
- evident
- evidently
- fancy
- featureless
- field
- flat
- flood plain
- floodplain
- gnarl
- gripe
- grizzle
- grouch
- ground
- grouse
- grumble
- hen-peck
- holler
- homely
- inelaborate
- inveigh
- kick
- knit
- knit stitch
- knitting stitch
- kvetch
- lament
- land
- literal
- llano
- manifest
- manifestly
- mere
- moor
- moorland
- murmur
- mutter
- nag
- obvious
- obviously
- palpable
- patent
- patently
- patterned
- peck
- peneplain
- peneplane
- plain stitch
- plainly
- plainness
- protest
- pure
- quetch
- rail
- repine
- report
- scold
- severe
- sheer
- simple
- snowfield
- solid ground
- solid-colored
- solid-coloured
- sound off
- spare
- squawk
- stark
- steppe
- stern
- tailored
- terra firma
- trim
- tundra
- unadorned
- unattractive
- undecorated
- unelaborate
- unembellished
- unmingled
- unmistakable
- unmixed
- unornamented
- unpatterned
- unpretentious
- unrhetorical
- unvarnished
- vanilla
- whine
- yammer
- yawp
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