Intended and Plain

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Intended adjective - Made, given, or done with full awareness of what one is doing.

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Plain and intended are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Plain" instead an adjective "Intended".

Nearby Words: intentional, intending, intension

Plain adjective - Free from all additions or embellishment.

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Intended and plain are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Intended" instead an adjective "Plain".

Nearby Words: plainly, plainness, plaint

full	full intended	full plain
normal	normal intended	normal plain
single	single intended	single plain
entire	entire intended	entire plain
Other adjectives: big, huge, bad, dark, quite, unique, last.

Léonard le Génie will every so often invent something that either fails spectacularly to do what it was intended to do, or is just plain useless.

Source: Bungling Inventor
Of course, Mystique had never intended any of that; all she wanted was plain revenge.

Source: Film / X-Men Film Series
Probably intended to be Affably Evil—or, come to think of it, just plain affable—in-universe, but due to Values Dissonance, it's more this trope for us.

Source: Faux Affably Evil

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