Underdeveloped Definition

ŭndər-dĭ-vĕləpt
adjective
Not developed to the proper or desirable degree; specif., so inadequately developed economically and industrially as to have a relatively low standard of living.
Underdeveloped nations.
Webster's New World
Not fully developed.
Seeds with underdeveloped embryos.
American Heritage Medicine
Processed in too weak a developing solution, or for too short a time, or at too low a temperature to produce a normal degree of contrast. Used of film.
American Heritage
Having a low level of economic productivity and technological sophistication within the contemporary range of possibility; developing.
Underdeveloped countries.
American Heritage

(photography) Of a film that has had insufficient development before being fixed.

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verb

Simple past tense and past participle of underdevelop.

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Underdeveloped Sentence Examples

  • But current plans alone will put a firecracker under the most underdeveloped sector - distribution.

  • Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is overproduction of immature (underdeveloped) lymphocytes, called lymphoblasts.

  • I also have macula hypoplasia (underdeveloped retina) which causes my low vision.

  • This is a relatively underdeveloped theme within policy research on clusters.

  • Nations and people groups under long-term oppression usually remain grossly underdeveloped.

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