Synonyms:
- Spartan,
- arid,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- bald,
- bare,
- barren,
- candid,
- common,
- commonplace,
- direct,
- dry,
- dull,
- earthbound,
- flat,
- frank,
- homely,
- homespun,
- humdrum,
- infecund,
- infertile,
- insipid,
- lean,
- literal,
- matter-of-fact,
- mundane,
- natural,
- neat,
- open,
- ordinary,
- pedestrian,
- plain,
- plain-speaking,
- plain-spoken,
- poetryless,
- prosaic,
- prosing,
- prosy,
- pure,
- rustic,
- severe,
- simple,
- simple-speaking,
- sober,
- spare,
- staid,
- stark,
- stolid,
- straightforward,
- stuffy,
- tiresome,
- unadorned,
- unaffected,
- unembellished,
- unfanciful,
- unideal,
- unidealistic,
- unimaginative,
- unimpassioned,
- uninspired,
- uninventive,
- unoriginal,
- unpoetic,
- unromantic,
- unromanticized,
- unvarnished,
- vapid