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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective underdeveloped has 2 senses
- underdeveloped(s = adj.all) developing - relating to societies in which capital needed to industrialize is in short supply; Array
- underdeveloped(s = adj.all) Array - not yet fully developed; Array
OXFORD DICTIONARY
underdeveloped, adj.
1 not fully developed; immature.
2 (of a country etc.) below its potential economic level.
3 Photog. not developed sufficiently to give a normal image.
1 not fully developed; immature.
2 (of a country etc.) below its potential economic level.
3 Photog. not developed sufficiently to give a normal image.
Derivative
underdevelopment n.
THESAURUS
underdeveloped
arrested, backward, behindhand, callow, coarse, crude, defective, deficient, embryonic, failing, hypoplastic, immature, in arrear, in arrears, in default, in embryo, in ovo, in short supply, in the rough, inadequate, incomplete, infant, lacking, missing, needing, oversimple, part, partial, patchy, reductionistic, reductive, rough, roughcast, roughhewn, rude, rudimental, rudimentary, scant, scanty, scrappy, short, shy, simplistic, sketchy, stunted, unblown, uncultivated, uncultured, uncut, undeveloped, unfashioned, unfinished, unformed, unhewn, unlabored, unlicked, unpolished, unprocessed, unprogressive, unrefined, untreated, unworked, unwrought, wanting
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