Thesaurus:bare-bones
English
Adjective
Sense: basic; lacking inessentials; without extras or fancies
Synonyms
- bare-bones
- austere
- bare
- bargain [⇒ thesaurus]
- basic
- cheap
- default
- discreet
- economy
- elemental
- elementary
- essential
- foundational
- fundamental
- incomplex
- light [⇒ thesaurus]
- modest
- no-frills
- plain
- pure [⇒ thesaurus]
- restrained
- run-of-the-mill
- simple
- slimline
- spartan
- standard [⇒ thesaurus]
- stripped down
- stripped
- uncomplicated
- unembellished
- uninvolved
- unmodified
- unvarnished
- vanilla
Antonyms
Hypernyms
Various
See also
Further reading
- “576. plainness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “739. severity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “bare-bones” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.