plainly

adverb

1. 1

   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. 2

   Obviously; clearly.

   You will see that ours is plainly the better method.

   The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed. They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.

   Plainly he was prepared to bark out an interminable succession of charges against the Wanderer.

Forms

comparative

plainlier, more plainly

superlative

plainliest, most plainly