: offering or providing only the essentials : not fancy, elaborate, or luxurious
a no-frills airline

Examples of no-frills in a Sentence

a low-cost, no-frills vacation during which we camped out and cooked our own meals
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Beyond that the Eufy is a no-frills robot vacuum, with 100 minutes of battery life, a remote control, quiet suction power, but no voice or phone functionality. Carlos Mejia, PCMAG, 25 Mar. 2025 The George Foreman Grill is a monument to no-frills industrial design. John Devore, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2025 Here’s another no-frills drip coffee maker from OXO. Sarah Madaus, Architectural Digest, 21 Mar. 2025 Curated by Michelle Kuo with Dana Liljegren, Eana Kim, David Sledge, and Kiko Aebi, the Whitten show is the kind of no-frills retrospective that MoMA does best. Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 20 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for no-frills

Word History

First Known Use

1948, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of no-frills was in 1948

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“No-frills.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/no-frills. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.

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