plaintext

Definitions

Text that is not encrypted or encoded and is directly readable by humans or software.

Unformatted text that contains no special styling, such as bold, italics, or font variations.

Examples

The sensitive information was accidentally sent in plaintext, making it vulnerable to interception.

You should always encrypt your files instead of storing them as plaintext on your hard drive.

Synonyms

unencrypted text cleartext raw data readable text unencoded information

Antonyms

ciphertext encrypted text encoded data scrambled text cipher