Found 2 items, similar to luddite.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: Luddite
Luddite
n 1: any opponent of technological progress
2: one of the 19th century English workmen who destroyed
labor-saving machinery that they thought would cause
unemployment
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Luddite
Luddite
\Lud"dite\, n.
One of a number of riotous persons in England, who for six
years (1811-17) tried to prevent the use of labor-saving
machinery by breaking it, burning factories, etc.; -- so
called from Ned Lud, a half-witted man who some years
previously had broken stocking frames. --J. & H. Smith. --H.
Martineau.
[1913 Webster]