plain

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of PLAIN

a broad area of level or rolling treeless country <the first settlers in that area lived on the vast plains in lonely log cabins>

Synonyms campo, champaign, down(s), grassland, heath, lea (or ley), llano, moor, pampa, prairie, savanna (also savannah), steppe, tundra, veld (or veldt)

Related Words field, meadow; floodplain; bottom, bottomland, flat, lowland; plateau, table, tableland, upland

a wide space or area <the vast plains of snow-covered earth that seemed to stretch endlessly>

Synonyms breadth, distance, expansion, extent, field, length, plain, reach, sheet, spread, stretch, waste

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