user-friendly

adjective

us·​er-friend·​ly ˌyü-zər-ˈfren(d)-lē 

: easy to learn, use, understand, or deal with

user-friendly software

also : agreeable, appealing

a user-friendly atmosphere

user-friendliness noun

Examples of user-friendly in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Rheinmetall also revealed that the system is controlled via a user-friendly ground station with permanent human-in-the-loop control. — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 14 Aug. 2026

Zuckerberg’s hope is that these developers will use that freedom to develop user-friendly apps and businesses that will eventually usher in utopian AI tech to the average person. — Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2026

These low-cost laptops use ChromeOS, Google's operating system that's built from the ground up to get peak performance out of underpowered hardware, with tons of security features and a user-friendly UI. — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 11 Aug. 2026

Compared with Google’s once-user-friendly UI and more relevant results, combing through an AltaVista results page required patience and genuine skill that was honed over time. — Alan Bradley, ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1972, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for user-friendly

• friendly
• unfriendly