user-hostile in English

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  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "user-friendly"
    }
  ],
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        "2": "hostile"
      },
      "expansion": "hostile",
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        "2": "user-friendly"
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      "expansion": "user-friendly",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From user + hostile, influenced by user-friendly.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more user-hostile",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most user-hostile",
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        "superlative"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1994, Jakob Nielsen, Usability Engineering",
          "text": "Usability is not a quality that can be spread out to cover a poor design like a thick layer of peanut butter, so a user-hostile interface does not get user-friendly even by the addition of a brilliant help system.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Mark Pearrow, The Wireless Web Usability Handbook",
          "text": "If you've had some experience using JavaScript and HTML, then you know that JavaScript can be used to make an interface much more user-friendly (even though it can also be used to create user-hostile features, even ones that crash the browser).",
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        "Difficult to use, especially for an untrained user."
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          "Difficult",
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          "untrained",
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      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "user hostile"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "user-hostile"
}

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{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "user-friendly"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "user"
      },
      "expansion": "user",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "hostile"
      },
      "expansion": "hostile",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "user-friendly"
      },
      "expansion": "user-friendly",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From user + hostile, influenced by user-friendly.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more user-hostile",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most user-hostile",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "user-hostile (comparative more user-hostile, superlative most user-hostile)",
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        {
          "ref": "1994, Jakob Nielsen, Usability Engineering",
          "text": "Usability is not a quality that can be spread out to cover a poor design like a thick layer of peanut butter, so a user-hostile interface does not get user-friendly even by the addition of a brilliant help system.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Mark Pearrow, The Wireless Web Usability Handbook",
          "text": "If you've had some experience using JavaScript and HTML, then you know that JavaScript can be used to make an interface much more user-friendly (even though it can also be used to create user-hostile features, even ones that crash the browser).",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Difficult to use, especially for an untrained user."
      ],
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        [
          "Difficult",
          "difficult"
        ],
        [
          "untrained",
          "untrained"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "user hostile"
    }
  ],
  "word": "user-hostile"
}

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"user-hostile" meaning in English

Adjective