no-frills
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.90 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Although it is a pain whenever I want to double a consonant before a suffix, per New Yorker style, and the spell-check prefers the no-frills version—“mislabeled,” say, instead of “mislabelled”—and I have to go back and poke in the extra letter and then put up with a disapproving red line under the word, I would never disable spell-check."
- "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."