bare-bones

Meaning

1. adjective 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.

2. adjective 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.

Similar words

barebones bare-boned bare no-frills rudimentary skeletal detailless spare minimal stripped down