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no-brainer

no-brainer noun: an easy or obvious conclusion, decision, solution; something requiring little or no thought.

Noun

no-brainer (plural no-brainers)

  1. (informal) An easy or obvious conclusion, decision, solution; something requiring little or no thought.
    • Choosing the older version which was as good as the newer version for half the cost was a no-brainer.
    • "Babcock [an engineering services company with a facility at Rosyth] has new contracts for new frigates there, so opening up the opportunities for rail running in is a no-brainer."2019 November 20, Graeme Pickering, “Plans breathing new life into Fife”, in Rail, page 49
  2. (informal) A conundrum requiring little or no thought to solve; A problem with an easy or obvious conclusion, decision, solution.
    • This next exam question is a no-brainer.

no-brainer meaning in Tamil

no-brainer in Tamil

மிக எளிதான செயல்

Forms of no-brainer

pluralno-brainers
alternative formno brainer
alternative formnobrainer

Origin of no-brainer

From no + brain + -er.

Questions about no-brainer

What does no-brainer mean?
No-brainer means an easy or obvious conclusion, decision, solution; something requiring little or no thought.
What is no-brainer in Tamil?
No-brainer in Tamil is மிக எளிதான செயல். See No-brainer meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is no-brainer?
No-brainer is a noun.
What is the plural of no-brainer?
The plural of no-brainer is no-brainers.

Words near no-brainer in the dictionary

  1. no-bake
  2. no-bakes
  3. no-being
  4. no-bill
  5. no-bills
  6. no-brainer
  7. no-brainers
  8. no-break space
  9. no-break spaces
  10. no-brow
  11. no-build

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Adapted from Wiktionary: no-brainer (page history and authors); no-brainer (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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