Dictionary Entry
luddite
luddite is a 7-letter English word with 3 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 3 senses
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- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
one of the 19th century English workmen who destroyed laborsaving machinery that they thought would cause unemployment
- 3noun
any opponent of technological progress
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