Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Somebody who suffers from technophobia; somebody afraid of new technology.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person who dislikes or avoids new technology
Examples
“Instead, before I close by suggesting that we refocus on the fundamentals -- and, lest I be saddled with labels like "luddite" and "technophobe" -- let me be clear: I am both a user and a fan of social media.”
The Huffington Post: Edward Muzio: Is Social Media the Next Bubble?
“Category 2: Environmentalism as a cover for being a technophobe or Luddite who wants mankind to live a Stone Age existence.”
“You forgot the part where thousands of "omgz, dont change facebook again!" groups start popping up as all your technophobe friends change their statuses to reflect their horror at Facebook.”
“I might be into retro stuff, but I am not a technophobe.”
Release the Kraken! Trying Clash of the Titans (1981) on iTunes - The Retroist
“And even if he plays everything on vintage 45s, he's not a technophobe: I have an iPhone, I'm on my laptop all the time.”
“When Barbara found out that I could afford to buy a nice camera but that I was a technophobe, she and I had a chuckle.”
The Huffington Post: Robert David Jaffee: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the iPod
“One could call him a technophobe, if he didn't happen to be the very antithesis.”
The Huffington Post: Lia Petridis Maiello: 'I Read, I Think, I Paint'
“I've always been a technophobe, so I've been stunned at how much I love my iPhone.”
“VOIP scares me because I'm a bit of a technophobe, so I went with Comcast Digital Voice bundled with my exisiting cable and internet service.”
“No! If someone is bright enough to be the POTUS, he has the luxury of being a technophobe, I guess.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘technophobe’.
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Buzzwords of our time
actionable, administrivia, advermation, agreeance, backbone provider, back-sourcing, baked in, bandwidth, barn raising, Barneyware, belly-buttons, Below Zeros and 1076 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Words That Populate My Mind
This is a collection of words I love, old ones that I love the sound of when I repeat them for years and new ones coined in news articles on up and coming trends and technologies - most of them I k...
aroma, mojo, blithely, fringe, fray, synchronicity, doublespeak, buzzword, thoughtcrime, portmanteau, newspeak, oldspeak and 963 more...
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haphazard's Words
repeal, resusitate, heavenly, godly, goodly, aggrandization, ixnay, reprimand, detriment, memorabilia, grueling, technophobe and 7 more...
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Kinds Of People
philistine, saboteur, scalawag, professor, curmudgeon, raconteur, bibliophile, miscreant, ignoramus, technophile, technophobe, reprobate and 12 more...
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