graphical user interface

noun

plural graphical user interfaces

: a user interface that allows a computer user to interact easily with the computer typically by making choices from displayed menus or groups of icons

… how quickly the software companies can write new applications, or new versions of old applications, to take advantage of windows, icons, menus and mice, the principal elements of the graphical user interface.

—Peter H. Lewis

Examples of graphical user interface in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Harrison compares it to the days of command-line computing and the shift to the graphical user interface (GUI) in the ‘80s and ’90s. —Julian Chokkattu, Wired News, 9 June 2025

Indeed, MacPaint was the key app demonstrated at the Mac launch that showed us the potential of the Mac and a graphical user interface. —Tim Bajarin, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025

Windows 95 represented a dramatically different way to interact with a PC, by encompassing the majority of programs and tasks inside a graphical user interface (GUI). —Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 10 Apr. 2025

Using VirtualBox’s unattended install feature (the default setting), Oracle Linux installs itself as a command-line-only system with no graphical user interface (GUI). —Edward Mendelson, PCMAG, 6 Jan. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1981, in the meaning defined above

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Kids Definition

graphical user interface

noun

: software that simplifies the use of a computer especially by using icons and menus