Plain and Tasteful

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Plain adjective - Free from all additions or embellishment.

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Tasteful is an antonym for plain.

Nearby Words: plainly, plainness, plaint

Tasteful adjective - Having or showing elegance.

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Plain is an antonym for tasteful in nice topic.

Nearby Words: taste, tasteless, tasty, tasted, tastefully

In the interest of being accurate to the Wild West setting, she was rather plain and wore a demure, tasteful costume.

Source: Distaff Counterpart aka: Spear Counterpart
She makes it plain that she is disgusted with them and will run the operation in a more tasteful manner once she is in charge.

Source: Even Evil Has Standards / Video Games
However, the best way to get your point across tends to be a simple, plain background with few (if any) text and transitional effects and tasteful use of images and clipart, rather than something out of a typical MySpace page.

Source: Boring But Practical / Real Life

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