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Adverb: plainly  pleyn-lee
  1. Unmistakably; visibly clear; in an evident manner
    "You are plainly wrong";
    - obviously, evidently, manifestly, patently, apparently, plain, obvs [non-standard, informal], clearly
     
  2. In a simple manner; without extravagance or embellishment
    "she was dressed plainly";
    - simply