preindustrial

• pre-industrial

From pre- +‎ industrial.

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:

     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:

     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

preindustrial m or f (masculine and feminine plural preindustriales)

1. preindustrial

• “preindustrial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014