Associations to the word «Underdeveloped»

Wiktionary

UNDERDEVELOPED, adjective. Immature and not fully developed
UNDERDEVELOPED, adjective. Having a low level of economic productivity and technological sophistication
UNDERDEVELOPED, adjective. (photography) of a film that has had insufficient development before being fixed
UNDERDEVELOPED, verb. Simple past tense and past participle of underdevelop

Dictionary definition

UNDERDEVELOPED, adjective. Relating to societies in which capital needed to industrialize is in short supply.
UNDERDEVELOPED, adjective. Not yet fully developed.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope