No-frills

Quick meaning: No-frills is an adjective meaning (informal, idiomatic) Basic or simple; providing only what is necessary, without anything extra or fancy.

Meaning

(informal, idiomatic) Basic or simple; providing only what is necessary, without anything extra or fancy.

Example Sentences

He rented a no-frills apartment and cooked his own meals.

Other stops retain no-frills brick-built shelters, although local community rail groups do their best to improve the ambience with planting, posters and artwork.

Another friend […] gathered a group to go to […] a no-frills comfort food restaurant, with a vast menu of classics sold at extraordinarily low prices: the only item in the 11-page menu over 1,000 forints was a bottle of sparkling wine, a reasonable 1,190 forints for 0.7 liters.

Although it is a pain whenever I want to double a consonant before a suffix, per New Yorker style, and the spell-check prefers the no-frills version—“mislabeled,” say, instead of “mislabelled”—and I have to go back and poke in the extra letter and then put up with a disapproving red line under the word, I would never disable spell-check.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bare-boned, bare-bones, frillless, rudimentary, plain, unembellished.

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