preindustrial

See also: pre-industrial

English

Alternative forms

• pre-industrial

Etymology

From pre- +‎ industrial.

Adjective

preindustrial (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to the period before the Industrial Revolution and the global industrialisation that followed.
   • 2021 January 13, Corey J.A. Bradshaw et al., “Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future”, in Frontiers in Conservation Science‎^[1]:

     Civilization has already exceeded a global warming of ~1.0◦C above pre-industrial conditions[.]

   • 2022 November 4, Fiona Harvey, “UN chief warns ‘we will be doomed’ without historic climate pact”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     At last year’s summit in Glasgow, countries agreed to focus on limiting global temperature rises to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, but recent UN reports have shown that current policies would raise temperatures by about 2.5C.

2. Not yet industrialized.

   a preindustrial nation

Translations

before industry

• Czech: předprůmyslový (cs), preindustriální (cs)
• Finnish: teollistumaton, esiteollinen (fi)
• French: préindustriel (fr)
• German: vorindustriell (de)
• Greek: προβιομηχανικός (el) (proviomichanikós)
• Hungarian: preindusztriális, iparosodás előtti
• Polish: przedindustrialny
• Russian: доиндустриа́льный (ru) (doindustriálʹnyj)
• Swedish: förindustriell (sv)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɾeindusˈtɾjal/ [pɾẽĩn̪.d̪usˈt̪ɾjal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: prein‧dus‧trial

Adjective

preindustrial m or f (masculine and feminine plural preindustriales)

1. preindustrial

Further reading

• “preindustrial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10