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Definition of "user-friendly" []

  • Easy to use or learn to use: "The public ought to be aware of the complexity of making new tax forms user-friendly” ( New York Times). (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "user-friendly" in a sentence
  • "With its user-friendly form of worship, flexible theology, multi-leveled membership commitments, and diverse family of small groups, Saddleback Church seems to have found a way to be all things to all people, which may be one explanation for its staggering growth."
  • "Or a word that some now find more user-friendly than sex, even though it produces its own brand of awkwardness for suggesting that sex is somehow to be avoided: sexuality."
  • "By the time the World Wide Web, or WWW, was up and running with a user-friendly web browser, Mosaic, implemented in 1993, the Soviet Union was history."