bare-boned design
- noun
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diseño minimalista
- The bare-boned design of the website makes it easy to navigate.
Examples
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The architect chose a bare-boned design to highlight the building’s functional aspects.
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Many modern homes feature a bare-boned design that emphasizes simplicity.
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Many startups prefer a bare-boned design for their first product to save costs and test ideas.
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The architect favored a bare-boned design for the new building.
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Many startups prefer a bare-boned design for their first product to save costs and test ideas.
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The bare-boned design of the website makes it easy to navigate.
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Many modern homes feature a bare-boned design that emphasizes simplicity.
Antonyms
How Minimal
Surface Forms
Morphology
bare-boned + design
The meaning 'stripped down to basic features' follows transparently from the constituents as a metaphorical extension of 'bare' (without covering) + 'bones' (the structural core), so a learner who knows those words can usually infer the sense. However, the phrase is metaphorical rather than strictly compositional and the orthographic variant 'bare-boned' is nonstandard compared with 'bare-bones', so it is not fully literal or fully predictable.
Etymology
Bare-boned design may come from the image of something bare with only bones showing, like a skeleton with no extra parts. That's why the phrase means 'a design with only its most basic or essential parts'.