Word info

plain old

Adjective

Meaning

plain old (not comparable)

Having no special properties; ordinary.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn't say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old. Hunter S. Thompson

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism. Twyla Tharp

It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness. Jerry Garcia

It is only a plain tale of plain people told in the plain dialect of a plain old woman. Eliza Calvert Hall

It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy. Elizabeth Kostova

Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career. Jack Prelutsky

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