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no-frills

no-frills adjective: basic or simple; providing only what is necessary, without anything extra or fancy.

Adjective

no-frills (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) Basic or simple; providing only what is necessary, without anything extra or fancy.
    • He rented a no-frills apartment and cooked his own meals.
    • 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.2014 January 30, Seth Kugel, “Wintertime Bargains in Budapest”, in The New York Times

Forms of no-frills

alternative formno frills

Questions about no-frills

What does no-frills mean?
No-frills means basic or simple; providing only what is necessary, without anything extra or fancy.
What part of speech is no-frills?
No-frills is an adjective.

Words near no-frills in the dictionary

  1. no-fly
  2. no-fly list
  3. no-fly lists
  4. no-fly zone
  5. no-fly zones
  6. no-frills
  7. no-ghost theorem
  8. no-go
  9. no-go pill
  10. no-go pills
  11. no-go theorem

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