Plain
Plain adjective - Free from all additions or embellishment.
Significant and plain are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Significant" instead an adjective "Plain".
Significant
Significant adjective - Clearly conveying a special meaning (as one's mood).
Plain and significant are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Plain" instead an adjective "Significant".
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- Writers frequently give out names which have important anagrams, often as a way of hiding significant facts in plain sight or drawing clever (and plausibly-deniable) parallels between characters.
Source: Significant Anagram - The clones have significant, though subtle, variations in character design, that denote their lower status, as well as "plain English" versions of their Latin names.
Source: Degraded Boss -
Gary of Ménage à 3 manifested this trope after he started attracting female attention, being a plain-looking geek with a haircut that would fit in an Archie comic from the 70s, and no significant social skills, who nonetheless began to accumulate an accidental harem.
Source: Kavorka Man
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