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luddit — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • Luddite noun A person who is opposed to new technology, or who is unwilling or unable to use it.

Senses

luddit is used for these senses in English:

  • Luddite (by extension, often, pejorative) Someone who opposes technological change.

Luddite — full definition

  1. noun A person who is opposed to new technology, or who is unwilling or unable to use it.
  2. noun A member of the groups of English textile workers who destroyed factory machinery in the early nineteenth century in protest at mechanisation and the loss of their livelihoods.
  3. adjective Hostile to, or characteristic of hostility to, new technology.

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