Bare-bones

Full definition of bare-bones

Adjective

1. 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. (computing) Describes a computer sold pre-assembled, but without certain essential components, often 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.

Synonyms

• (only the essentials) no-frills, skeleton