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Adjective: underdeveloped  `úndurdi'velupt
  1. Relating to societies in which capital needed to industrialize is in short supply
    - developing
     
  2. Not yet fully developed
Verb: underdevelop  `úndurdi'velup
  1. Process (a film or photographic plate) less than the required time or in an ineffective solution or at an insufficiently high temperature
    "These photos are underdeveloped"

See also: immature, nonindustrial, underdevelopment

Type of: develop