Attractive
Attractive adjective - Very pleasing to look at.
Usage example: generally the star of a TV commercial is an attractive person
Plain is an antonym for attractive.
Plain
Plain adjective - Free from all additions or embellishment.
Attractive is an antonym for plain in topics: ugly, clear, normal, unembellished, straightforward in speech.
Both words in one sentence
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Newborn infants prefer to look at attractive faces (about 80%), than less attractive or plain ones.
Source: Beauty Equals Goodness - Mary Bennet, a poor little girl, is the only one plain among her very attractive sisters who are all reputed beauties.
Source: Plain Jane -
This changed gradually over the years (albeit with a heaping dollop of Depending on the Artist), until by the mid-'80s she was moving away from plain, through plain but attractive and into beautiful.
Source: Comicbook / Rogue
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