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Underdeveloped

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Adjective

1. developing, underdeveloped

relating to societies in which capital needed to industrialize is in short supply

2. underdeveloped

not yet fully developed

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Underdeveloped

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adjective
1. 
immature or undersized
2. 
relating to societies in which both the surplus capital and the social organization necessary to advance are lacking
3. photography
(of a film, plate, or print) processed in developer for less than the required time, thus lacking in contrast

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Underdeveloped

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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 College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Underdeveloped

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adj.
1. Not fully developed: seeds with underdeveloped embryos.
2. 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.
3. Having a low level of economic productivity and technological sophistication within the contemporary range of possibility; developing: underdeveloped countries.

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