bare-bones
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.94 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Minimalist; lacking that which is not essential.
adj
Describes a computer sold preassembled, but without certain essential components, such as a processor, memory, and hard drive.
Example Sentences
- "Meals on early space flights were bare-bones affairs; able to supply nutrition, but severely lacking in palatability."
- "Considering their civilization endured both the immense disaster of the Scourge and the brutal kett invasion, angara possess remarkably advanced technology. Their starships, while generally small and bare-bones functional, are more than capable of keeping pace with Andromeda Initiative vessels."
- "Emil bought a bare-bones rig and a new CPU at the computer show, then popped in his old hard drive."
Inflected Forms
more bare-bones (comparative)
most bare-bones (superlative)