no-frills

English

Alternative forms

• no frills

Pronunciation

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Adjective

no-frills (not comparable)

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

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

   • 2014 January 30, Seth Kugel, “Wintertime Bargains in Budapest”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 58:

     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.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:bare-bones

Translations

basic or simple

• Finnish: perus- (fi), halpis-
• German: ohne Schnickschnack (informal)
• Hungarian: fapados (hu)
• Italian: senza fronzoli
• Russian: без изли́шеств (bez izlíšestv), (colloquial) без наворо́тов (bez navorótov), (colloquial) без прибамба́сов (bez pribambásov), (colloquial) без свисте́лок и перде́лок (bez svistélok i perdélok)
• Swedish: utan krusiduller