underdeveloped

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: un=der=de=vel=oped

OXFORD DICTIONARY

underdeveloped, adj.
1 not fully developed; immature.
2 (of a country etc.) below its potential economic level.
3 Photog. not developed sufficiently to give a normal image.

Derivative

underdevelopment n.

THESAURUS

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