preindustrial

Examples

• All

• Land, the measure of wealth in preindustrial times, was available in unlimited abundance.

  Academic text (2011)

• The nuclear family of industrial America and Europe has been shown to be a continuation of preindustrial living arrangements.

  Academic text (1991)

• In that preindustrial era, congregation close to sites of employment was limited.

  Academic text (1992)

• The capacity of air power to cripple a preindustrial society was, in fact, quite limited.

  Academic text (1991)

• The majority of these "traditional" pieces have focused on the attributes of rural, folk, or preindustrial societies.

  Academic text (2002)

• Preindustrial societies lived in dangerous environments where little could be done to extend human life.

  Academic text (1993)

• Hence, the current pattern of western development wins over preindustrial societies in economic terms but is, right now, not sustainable ecologically.

  Academic text (1994)

• The level of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere exceeds preindustrial levels by nearly 40 percent and is rising rapidly.

  Academic text (2008)

• In the preindustrial world, solar-powered ecosystems supported the human economy (figure 1).

  Academic text (2009)

• Artifacts of preindustrial societies are seldom unearthed with documentation on how they were constructed.

  Academic text (1995)

Synonyms

P

premodern

vspreindustrial

1 5.5

From a time before modern technology and ideas

is specific to periods before machines factories or large scale manufacturing appeared

U

unindustrialized

vspreindustrial

7.0

A country or area that does not have many factories to make goods

refers to historical periods before development of machines or factories

Antonyms

I

industrial

520 3.2

Relating to factories and the making of goods

How Industrial

industrialized

20 4.0

industrial

520 3.2

postindustrial

• Specialized

1 6.8

preindustrial

1 5.3

agrarian

13 6.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology