bakåtsträvare — 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.
- reactionary adj Strongly opposed to political or social change, and favouring a return to how things used to be.
Senses
bakåtsträvare is used for these senses in English:
- Luddite (by extension, often, pejorative) Someone who opposes technological change.
- reactionary (politics) One who opposes revolution, wanting to reverse it, favoring a return to a past golden age. Often used as a derogatory by revolutionaires.
Luddite — full definition
- noun A person who is opposed to new technology, or who is unwilling or unable to use it.
- 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.
- adjective Hostile to, or characteristic of hostility to, new technology.
reactionary — full definition
- adj Strongly opposed to political or social change, and favouring a return to how things used to be.
- noun A person who opposes progress or reform and wants to restore an earlier state of affairs.