English to Irish Meaning of luddite - Luddite

Luddite :

Luddite :: ludditeLuddites :: Luddites

← Lucution

ludicrous →

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Definitions of luddite in English

Noun(1) any opponent of technological progress(2) one of the 19th century English workmen who destroyed laborsaving machinery that they thought would cause unemployment

Examples of luddite in English

(1) Leslie was a polymath and lucubrator (a word he liked) with a good knowledge of literature, astronomy, geology, genealogy, ornithology, and, particularly, local history.(2) One school of think tank lucubrators concluded this was another example of the superpower's decision to move troops around the world unilaterally, without having to submit a decision to intervene in a hot spot abroad to the whims of recalcitrant allies.(3) In my line of work I meet a lot of lucubrators actually!(4) All serious lucubrators trot to these toothsome tomes as the authoritative source for not only meaning, spelling, and pronunciation, but also for word origin, history, and usage.

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