'underdeveloped' definitions:
Definition of 'underdeveloped'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Relating to societies in which capital needed to industrialize is in short supply [syn: developing, underdeveloped]
adjective
Not yet fully developed
Synonyms of 'underdeveloped'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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