tech-savvy

Or tech sav·vy

[tek-sav-ee]

adjective

1. having much knowledge of or skill with current technology, especially digital technology.

   You don't have to be a very tech-savvy teacher to use these online resources in your classroom.

noun

1. Usually tech savvy knowledge of or skill with current technology, especially digital technology.

   If I can learn the software this quickly, with my limited tech savvy, then hopefully others can as well.

   There’s a group called Teen Tech Volunteers who use their tech-savvy to assist adults with basic computer usage.

Word History and Origins

Origin of tech-savvy¹

First recorded in 1990–95

Example Sentences

Finger considers himself tech-savvy: “I like my iPhone. I like playing videogames. I love the internet. I love that any question I have I can go on Google, all I have to do is punch it in.”

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Quan continued this trend with “Loki,” in which his smart-mouthed, tech-savvy character Ouroboros is “a variant of Data from ‘The Goonies,'” according to his interview with Gold Derby.

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I recently convened a panel of tech-savvy seniors who are all in on AI, to find out how they’re using chatbots in their personal lives.

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Partnering with Kalshi and Polymarket could help the league expand its fan base to the tech-savvy users of prediction markets, he added.

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My friends and I obviously connected over the internet, but even the least tech-savvy people I knew found ways to jailbreak everything—iPods, our PlayStation Portables.

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