nonindustrial
- a not having highly developed manufacturing enterprises
a nonindustrial society
- DPJ leaders say they want to boost Japan's nonindustrial economy by lowering taxes paid by local businesses, developing new environmental technologies and creating jobs in health .
- He is smoothly confident, however, that Caltech will be able "to maintain a nonindustrial, unhurried, even nonmetropolitan atmosphere of informality and intimacy.
- The chief trouble is that the nonindustrial two-thirds of the human race is increasing so rapidly that it cannot become industrial.