Dictionaries › English

bloatware

The English word “bloatware” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Software that is packed with too many features and therefore slow or unwieldy; software that is inefficiently designed and occupies an excessive amount of memory or disk space.
  2. Unwanted pre-installed software, especially on a smartphone.

Etymology

From bloat + -ware. Originally in the sense “unwieldy software”; the sense “pre-installed software” has become predominant since the 2010s.

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “bloatware” there

More English words

About this dictionary

The English dictionary on Glottosphere has 650,529 entries with a page. Browse the English dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.