Low-tech
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Low-tech is an adjective meaning (informal) Simple, uncomplicated, primitive, not involving advanced technology.
Meaning
(informal) Simple, uncomplicated, primitive, not involving advanced technology.
Example Sentences
Sometimes the low-tech ways are best: bash it with a rock, that'll loosen it.
The control centre of the Shinkansen, the world's first high-speed railway, is surprisingly low-tech.
The Automat, whose gleaming chrome-and-glass machines brought high-tech eating to a low-tech era, has gulped down its last coin and served up its last helping of macaroni, baked beans and kaiser rolls.
Many jihadist plots have been foiled and the security apparatus is getting better, overall, at pre-empting those who would do us ill. But, they say, the nature of the threat and the terrorists’ increasing use of low-tech, asymmetrical tactics such as hire vehicles and knives, make it all but impossible to stop every assault.
Antonyms for low-tech
Common opposites include hi-tech, high-tech.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include rudimentary, unskilled, austere, crude, rough, primitive.
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