Sekirov Dictionary

bare-bones

adjective 2
bare bones noun 1
forms 2

adjective2

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Minimalist; lacking that which is not essential.
- Meals on early space flights were bare-bones affairs; able to supply nutrition, but severely lacking in palatability.
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Describes a computer sold preassembled, but without certain essential components, such as a processor, memory, and hard drive.
- Emil bought a bare-bones rig and a new CPU at the computer show, then popped in his old hard drive.

bare bones noun[plural only]1

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The essential elements of something; the minimum viable set of elements; especially when they are described without going into detail.
- He had only been taught the bare bones of the system, but carried on regardless.

forms

more bare-bones · most bare-bones

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