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Opponent of technological progress
Answer for the clue "Opponent of technological progress ", 7 letters:
luddite
Alternative clues for the word luddite
- Diluted (anag) — opponent of technological innovation
- One who longs for the good old days, perhaps
- One who still has a flip phone, say
- Unlikely smartphone user
- Rum diluted for machine-wrecker
- 19th-century English workman who destroyed new labour-saving machinery
- One of the 19th century English workmen who destroyed labor-saving machinery that they thought would cause unemployment
- Opponent of technological innovation
Word definitions for luddite in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The '''Luddites '''were 19th-century English textile workers (or self-employed weavers who feared the end of their trade) who protested against newly developed labour-economizing technologies, primarily between 1811 and 1816. The stocking frames , spinning ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also luddite , 1811, from name taken by an organized band of weavers who destroyed machinery in Midlands and northern England 1811-16 for fear it would deprive them of work. Supposedly from Ned Ludd , a Leicestershire worker who in 1779 had done the same ...
Usage examples of luddite.
The pilgrim had been sitting back in the shadows, but one Luddite noticed him and urged him to join the other women.
The pilgrim hit him just below his ribcage, and the Luddite grunted and doubled up.
The Luddite sat down heavily, and his fellow Luddites broke into new screams of laughter.
The stricken Luddite slowly began to get to his feet, holding his stomach and backing away.
Later, as the talking died away, the pilgrim turned to the Luddite beside him.
The Luddite smelled of smoke and grease and sweat, but the pilgrim was beginning to get accustomed to it.
In the next few days, the pilgrim became a part of Luddite life on the move.
Sometimes the minstrel would sing of old glories or glories yet to come, and the blood would dance within each Luddite until he was compelled to get up and stomp around the dying fire as the minstrel chanted, making guttural sounds and whoops of other noise.
But they were a subdued group good for little more than doing what the Luddites told them to do, gathering wood for fire, cooking meals, going with the Luddite who selected them to his blanket for the night.
A group of young Luddite men had gathered around the discussion, drawn by the straining voices.
I was going to college in Fairbanks and there was a pretty big Luddite presence on campus.
When I was in high school I discovered the Luddite movement and tried to get them interested, but it was hopeless.
Worldwide, it had more than two hundred Luddite scientists working for it.
Its deadliest opponent had been within the grasp of his Luddite helpers and had escaped!
Death, a Luddite ally, who was in charge of them, reported that this was a typical, but by no means universal, human response to seeing family members tortured.