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user-friendly

user-friendly adjective: designed to be easy for an untrained user to use, with intuitive ordering of steps, consistent and logical placement of controls, etc.

Adjective

user-friendly (comparative user-friendlier or more user-friendly, superlative user-friendliest or most user-friendly)

  1. Designed to be easy for an untrained user to use, with intuitive ordering of steps, consistent and logical placement of controls, etc.
    • In the past few years, product engineers have infused the basic telephone with lots of high-tech, razzle-dazzle, and user friendly innovations such as speed dialing, automatic redial, speakerphones, cordless phones, hold buttons, and dialing memories.1994 May, Gary Turbak, “The Phone Phenomenon”, in The Rotarian, volume 164, number 5, page 31
    Synonyms:
    ergonomic

user-friendly meaning in Tamil, Indonesian, Persian and Vietnamese

user-friendly in Tamil

பயனாளர் தோழமையான

user-friendly in Indonesian

designed to be easy to use
ramah pengguna

user-friendly in Persian

designed to be easy to use
کاربرپسند kârbar-pasand

user-friendly in Vietnamese

designed to be easy to use
tiện lợi

Synonyms of user-friendly

Antonyms

Forms of user-friendly

comparativeuser-friendlier
comparativemore user-friendly
superlativeuser-friendliest
superlativemost user-friendly
alternative formuserfriendly
alternative formuser friendly

Origin of user-friendly

From user + friendly.

Questions about user-friendly

What does user-friendly mean?
User-friendly means designed to be easy for an untrained user to use, with intuitive ordering of steps, consistent and logical placement of controls, etc.
What is user-friendly in Tamil?
User-friendly in Tamil is பயனாளர் தோழமையான. See User-friendly meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is user-friendly?
User-friendly is an adjective.

Words near user-friendly in the dictionary

  1. user-defined graphic
  2. user-defined graphics
  3. user-friendlier
  4. user-friendliest
  5. user-friendliness
  6. user-friendly
  7. user-hostile
  8. user-unfriendly
  9. user-upper
  10. user-uppers
  11. user-worked

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Adapted from Wiktionary: user-friendly (page history and authors); user-friendly (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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