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user friendly

user friendly is the alternative spelling of user-friendly.

Meaning of user-friendly

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

Forms of user friendly

comparativemore user friendly
superlativemost user friendly

Questions about user friendly

What is user friendly the alternative spelling of?
User friendly is the alternative spelling of user-friendly.

Words near user friendly in the dictionary

  1. user control
  2. user controls
  3. User Datagram Protocol
  4. user experience
  5. user experiences
  6. user friendly
  7. user group
  8. user groups
  9. user guide
  10. user guides
  11. user ID

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Adapted from Wiktionary: user friendly (page history and authors); user-friendly (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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