low-tech
18
3.8
- adjective
- /ˈloʊˌtɛk/
:
de baja tecnología
- The workshop focused on low-tech approaches to gardening, emphasizing simple tools and techniques.
- low-tech tools
- low-tech devices
- low-tech approaches
I think what you said also about would it be super low tech alien craft?
- I think what you said also about would it be super low tech alien craft?
- It's either going to be nukes or it's going to be cyber or terrorism, which again, low tech box cutters hijacking.
- Last year I spent about a billion dollars buying low tech kind of things for our partners that we're operating with in other countries.
- I also happen to think personally that they've chosen the right things to go high tech on versus keep low tech.
- It made no sense for Western Europe to making these low tech consumer goods.
- This is why I chose to take it into a very low tech, kind of low governance area or direction.
Examples
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Elements of sophisticated technology contrast and coexist with low-tech, low-budget solutions.
Academic text (2008) -
Materials recovery facilities employ a spectrum of high-tech to low-tech processing approaches.
Academic text (1997) -
For this part, we go low tech.
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Very low tech, about as low tech as a toy could get.
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I got a few low-tech solutions.
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But they often use low-tech methods, and costs are kept to a minimum.
Academic text (1996) -
Now, when she looked at her students, she saw them using their new low-tech tools to follow the circle routine.
Academic text (2013) -
All three students quickly learned how to use the low-tech AT tool and increased their participation in the circle time routine.
Academic text (2013) -
Initially, the greatest impact came in low-tech industries like apparel and shoes.
Academic text (2006) -
I am going to talk about new technology and copyrights today with a very low-tech presentation.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
6
4.2
Very simple, with only the basic parts that are needed
5
3.8
Simple and basic without extra services or decoration
3
4.8
Has only the basic parts and no extra features
A very simple thing with almost no features or comfort
Antonyms
How Advanced
49
5.6
226
3.9
71
4.7
∞
1.4
18
3.8
175
2.8
183
5.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Low-tech joins low ('not high') and tech, which is short for technology and means 'tools and machines'. So low-tech literally means 'not high technology' and is used for simple, basic tools or methods instead of more advanced ones.