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underdeveloped

Adjective underdeveloped has 3 senses

developing, underdeveloped - relating to societies in which capital needed to industrialize is in short supply
Antonym: industrial (indirect, via nonindustrial)
underdeveloped - not yet fully developed
Antonym: mature (indirect, via immature)
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

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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