antimachinist

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone who is hostile to machinery; a Luddite
    — The uprising of the antimachinists got under way and went on to a victorious end. It was, however, a victory marred by agonizing controversies as to where to draw the line between machines slated for destruction and the ones to be kept.
  2. An opponent of a political machine
    — Perhaps this distraction was perversely comforting for a dyed-in-the-wool antimachinist like Orr, a sense of continuity at a time of great emotional confusion.

词形变化

词源

From anti- + machine + -ist.
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