Underdeveloped

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  underdeveloped
       adj 1: relating to societies in which capital needed to
              industrialize is in short supply [syn: {developing}]
       2: not yet fully developed
       3: (of a photograph) lacking in contrast because it was left in
          the developer for less than the required time



From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  64 Moby Thesaurus words for "underdeveloped":
     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