Definition of "user-hostile" [user-hostile]

• Difficult to use, especially for an untrained user. (adjective)

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• "That's what I mean by being a user-hostile format."
• "The files are very small in their proprietary format, but that format is otherwise user-hostile, so I convert the files to MP3's, which tend to be 3 or 4 times larger."
• "Lisa Spangenberg, #193: "Random House who have gotten increasingly difficult about DRM and wanted ebooks with any of their content, even if it's a tiny percentage, to be locked down with ridiculous user-hostile and support-hostile DRM""