The Collaborative International Dictionary
nonindustrial \nonindustrial\ adj. 1. not industrial; -- used of societies. Opposite of industrial and industrialized. [Narrower terms: developing, underdeveloped; {unindustrialized ]
Wiktionary
a. 1 Not industrial. 2 Of a geographic area, not designated for use by manufacturers and other industry; residential or commercial.
WordNet
adj. not having highly developed manufacturing enterprises; "a nonindustrial society" [ant: industrial]
Usage examples of "nonindustrial".
The farmhouses were well-built, most of them boasting more than one room, with separate quarters for the animalsnot always the rule in nonindustrial societies, Gil remarked cynically.
Hardic people of the Archipelago live by farming, herding, fishing, trading, and the usual crafts and arts of a nonindustrial society.
Hardic peoples, so that, much as ordinary life in the Archipelago seems to resemble that of nonindustrial peoples elsewhere, there are almost immeasurable differences.
Even the nonindustrial regions like Africa and Southern Eurasia are relatively clean as well.
How could an apparently nonindustrial, pastoral society design, construct and activate the most advanced base in known space in such a short time?
Florida when things were really starting to look rough, and went along a kind of complex of old warehouses and truck bays that had once been an industrial hub of sorts in a largely nonindustrial town but were now mainly abandoned.
Europe and North America, but significantly greater than in the nonindustrial countries of the tropics.
Once, early in the history of the species, and before its nature had become fixed, there occurred a nonindustrial civilization of a genuinely intellectual kind, almost like that of Greece.
The farmhouses were well-built, most of them boasting more than one room, with separate quarters for the animals -not always, the rule in nonindustrial societies, Gil remarked cynically.
In nonindustrial societies, the resources were desperately needed for other things, and literacy would not have helped either the economy or the well-being of society as a whole.
From being the most common material, plastic had become the rarest, and nonindustrial nylon the rarest of all.
Before a nonindustrial country received food, the governments provided heavy penalties for unlicensed births.
But he was frightenedshe knew it, could feel itfrightened beyond the point where any role player would forget the bounds of a nonindustrial persona and simply say, Shut off the flashlight.