FINERY Antonyms

• the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures)

• a manner that does not take forms and ceremonies seriously

• freedom from constraint or embarrassment

• freedom from vanity or conceit

• formality and propriety of manner

• the quality of being commonplace and ordinary

• not elaborate or elaborated; simple

• lacking patterns especially in color

• extensive tract of level open land

• a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the lefthand side

• unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly')

• clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment

• not mixed with extraneous elements

• free from any effort to soften to disguise

• lacking embellishment or ornamentation

• lacking in physical beauty or proportion

• express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness

• the state of being unmixed with other material

• clarity as a consequence of being perspicuous

• the appearance of being plain and unpretentious

• an appearance that is not attractive or beautiful

• a lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing

• an unjust act

• the quality of being simple or uncompounded

• a lack of penetration or subtlety

• absence of affectation or pretense

• freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort

• lack of ornamentation

• a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said

• Ordinary civilian clothes, rather than uniform.

• (usually of a police officer) Wearing ordinary civilian clothes instead of a uniform, in order to avoid detection.