USER-FRIENDLY


Meaning of USER-FRIENDLY in English

ˌuser-ˈfriendly BrE AmE adjective

easy to use, understand, or operate:

a user-friendly guide to computing

—user-friendliness noun [uncountable]

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THESAURUS

▪ easy not difficult to do, and not needing much effort:

an easy task

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The house was easy to find.

▪ simple easy and not complicated – used about things such as instructions and explanations, or about machines and systems:

The system is relatively simple to operate.

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a simple recipe for chocolate cake

▪ straightforward easy to understand or do, and unlikely to cause you any problems:

a straightforward explanation

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The calculation is fairly straightforward.

▪ user-friendly easy to use – used especially about computers or written information about how to do something:

Their website is very user-friendly.

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a user-friendly guide to owning a dog

▪ undemanding easy because it does not take a lot of effort:

It was an undemanding role for someone of his experience.

▪ cushy /ˈkʊʃi/ informal a cushy job is easy to do and needs very little effort – often used when you are envious of the person who has it:

It’s a pretty cushy job – all she has to do is drive a nice car around.

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a cushy number (=a very easy job)

▪ mindless so easy that you can do it without thinking – used especially when it makes you feel bored:

mindless tasks

▪ painless without any difficulties or problems – used especially when you expected something to be much worse:

Finding the carhire place at the airport was relatively painless.

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Thankfully, there's a wide selection of search tools to make the task relatively painless.

▪ be plain sailing British English , be smooth sailing American English to be easy and with no problems that you have to deal with:

Things should be plain sailing from now on.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.