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Definition of 'underdeveloped'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (adj.) underdeveloped
improperly or insufficiently developed.

2. underdeveloped
(of a photographic negative) less developed than is normal, so as to produce a relatively dark positive lacking in contrast.

Etymology: (1890–95)

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Princeton's WordNet

1. (adj) developing, underdeveloped
relating to societies in which capital needed to industrialize is in short supply

2. (adj) underdeveloped
not yet fully developed

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