1 : lacking embellishment or ornamentation; "a plain hair style"; "unembellished white walls"; "functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete"
2 : low or inferior in station or quality; "a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings"
3 : lacking in magnitude or quantity; "a bare livelihood"; "a scanty harvest"; "a spare diet"
