: 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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The Nectar Memory Foam is a no-frills mattress that offers ample pressure relief in most sleep positions. Lindsay Boyers, Architectural Digest, 29 Oct. 2024 In addition to creating a no-frills, few-fees experience, Southwest adopted a point-to-point routing system, allowing passengers to fly between cities without transferring, rather than the hub-and-spoke model, which requires fliers to stop over in another city. Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2024 This new Mustang keeps with the pony car’s tradition of being (generally) no-frills. Aaron Turpen, New Atlas, 26 Oct. 2024 The hybrid approach allows for different creative opportunities: Experts Only parties, for instance, offer no-frills production and let Summit stay close to his audience and test new music. Katie Bain, Billboard, 25 Oct. 2024 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 5 Nov. 2024.

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