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no-fi

no-fi is the clipping of no fidelity.

Meaning of no fidelity

Adjective

no fidelity (comparative more no fidelity, superlative most no fidelity)

  1. (excessive, humorous, sound) Extremely low fidelity.
    • Near-synonyms: low fidelity, lo-fi, LoFi, lofi
    Synonyms:
    low fidelity, lo-fi, LoFi
  2. (humorous, sound) Involving no electronics at all, being an original (unreproduced) noise.
    • Get a load of my no-fidelity radio: my neighbor is singing off-tune while he weeds his garden.

Questions about no-fi

What is no-fi the clipping of?
No-fi is the clipping of no fidelity.

Words near no-fi in the dictionary

  1. no-doubters
  2. no-fail
  3. no-fault
  4. no-fault divorce
  5. no-fault divorces
  6. no-fi
  7. no-fly
  8. no-fly list
  9. no-fly lists
  10. no-fly zone
  11. no-fly zones

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Adapted from Wiktionary: no-fi (page history and authors); no fidelity (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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