NO-FRILLS Synonyms

• pertaining to or constituting a base or basis

• (usually in the plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant

• a popular programming language that is relatively easy to learn; an acronym for beginner's all-purpose symbolic instruction code; no longer in general use

• reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality

• serving as a base or starting point

• of or denoting or of the nature of or containing a base

• designed for or capable of a particular function or use

• involving or affecting function rather than physiology

• relating to or based on function especially as opposed to structure

• fit or ready for use or service

• designed for or adapted to a function or use

• (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing

• of or relating to artistic minimalism

• a conservative who advocates only minor reforms in government or politics

• a practitioner or advocate of artistic minimalism

• advocating minimal reforms (as in government or politics)

• not tolerating irrelevancies

• not elaborate or elaborated; simple

• lacking patterns especially in color

• extensive tract of level open land

• a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the lefthand side

• unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly')

• clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment

• not mixed with extraneous elements

• free from any effort to soften to disguise

• lacking embellishment or ornamentation

• lacking in physical beauty or proportion

• express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness

• having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved

• (botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions

• any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties

• a person lacking intelligence or common sense

• easy and not involved or complicated

• apart from anything else; without additions or modifications

• exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity

• lacking mental capacity and subtlety

• unornamented

• not decorated with something to increase its beauty or distinction

• someone who believes that the value of a thing depends on its utility

• having a useful function

• having utility often to the exclusion of values