underdeveloped

The definition of underdeveloped is having a low standard of living, or immature.

(adjective)

  1. An example of something underdeveloped is a country that has many poor people and bad living conditions.
  2. An example of something underdeveloped is a small fish that must get thrown back into the lake.

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See underdeveloped in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

not developed to the proper or desirable degree; specif., so inadequately developed economically and industrially as to have a relatively low standard of living: underdeveloped nations

See underdeveloped in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective
  1. Not adequately or normally developed; immature: underdeveloped leaves and flowers.
  2. Processed in too weak a developing solution, or for too short a time, or at too low a temperature to produce a normal degree of contrast. Used of film.
  3. Having a low level of economic productivity and technological sophistication within the contemporary range of possibility; developing: underdeveloped countries.

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  • unˌder·de·velˈop·ment noun

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