no-frills

1. 1.

   characterized by the absence of inessential features

   “he got a no-frills introduction to the job”

   Similaressential

   colloquialism

Questions about no-frills

What does no-frills mean?

no-frills means "characterized by the absence of inessential features".

How many syllables are in no-frills?

no-frills has 2 syllables and divides as no--frills under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is no-frills a common word?

no-frills is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.