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user-friendly

American  
[yoo-zer-frend-lee] / ˈyu zərˈfrɛnd li /

adjective

  1. easy to use, operate, understand, etc..

    the most user-friendly personal computer now on the market.
user-friendly British  

adjective

  1. easy to use or understand

    a user-friendly dictionary

  2. (of a computer system) easily operated and understood by means of a straightforward guide in jargon-free language

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Other Word Forms

  • user-friendliness noun

Etymology

Origin of user-friendly

First recorded in 1980–85

Example Sentences

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Finra, the private, not-for-profit organization that oversees its member brokerage firms, offers the free BrokerCheck tool, which has a user-friendly interface that provides an overview of an adviser’s professional background.

From MarketWatch

The apps are genuinely user-friendly with a clean, modern interface that’s consistent across platforms.

From Salon

By the mid-1990s, with the introduction of the more user-friendly World Wide Web, bulletin boards fell out of favor.

From Salon

Nor is it David Henry Hwang’s user-friendly libretto based on the late Ming Dynasty Chinese classic, “Journey to the West.”

From Los Angeles Times

For the rest of 2023, they “lived like monks,” resisting outside hires and focused maniacally on building a user-friendly tool.

From The Wall Street Journal

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