Adjective underdeveloped has 3 senses
  1. developing, underdeveloped - relating to societies in which capital needed to industrialize is in short supply
    Antonym: industrial (indirect, via nonindustrial)
  2. underdeveloped - not yet fully developed
    Antonym:
    mature (indirect, via immature)
  3. underdeveloped - (of a photograph) lacking in contrast because it was left in the developer for less than the required time
    Antonym:
    contrasty (indirect, via flat)
,Verb underdevelop has 1 sense
  1. underdevelop - 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"
    --1 is one way to
    develop
    Derived form: noun underdevelopment2
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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