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Underdeveloped   /ˌəndərdɪvˈɛləpt/   Listen
Underdeveloped

adjective
1.
Relating to societies in which capital needed to industrialize is in short supply.  Synonym: developing.
2.
Not yet fully developed.





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... conversation with Mr. Polly; he would come along to him whenever he appeared at his door, and converse about sport and women and fisticuffs and the pride of life with an air of extreme initiation, until Mr. Polly felt himself the faintest underdeveloped intimation of a man that had ever hovered on the verge ...
— The History of Mr. Polly • H. G. Wells


Words linked to "Underdeveloped" :   developing, immature, nonindustrial


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