Definition of underdeveloped in English:

underdeveloped

adjectiveʌndədɪˈvɛləptˌəndərdəˈvɛləpt

1Not fully developed.
发育不全的
underdeveloped kidneys
发育不全的肾。
the community services are underfunded and underdeveloped
社区服务投资不足，发展不全。
Example sentencesExamples
- The band's songs are underdeveloped in the sense that they earnestly try to cram a catchy melody into every minute of every song, which dilutes the potency of the album as a whole.
- Without giving too much away, the tepid love story is just one of several underdeveloped subplots, all of which culminate with the men eventually entering the Royal Horticultural Society's garden contest.
- In 1903, a method of increasing the annual tax on vacant or underdeveloped land was adopted.
- The arts market in Yorkshire is underdeveloped, yet we know there is enormous scope for growth.
- Because the brain or respiratory system may be immature or underdeveloped, the baby may not be able to regulate his or her own breathing normally.
- This country, he said, was a land of unlimited opportunities, with a growing middle class and an impressive savings rate, yet with an underdeveloped banking system ripe for reform.
- What's worse, none of these genres is given enough time to develop, resulting in a scattered and underdeveloped plot.
- During walks in the woods, Rusty, whose blindness is caused by underdeveloped retinas, would follow Dugan, staying right at his ear.
- It's just not enough, though, because first, the characterisation is underdeveloped, and second, there is no attempt to establish an audience-character relationship.
- She is often referred as odd and is picked on for being short and underdeveloped.
- The city has been so underdeveloped for so long that there is plenty of capacity there.
- The old man watched her go, a slight underdeveloped girl, wearing a ragged pair of boys' shorts too big for her, a lustrous mop of untidy hair falling in glossy black waves almost to her bony shoulders.
- It's tough being a student; between lack of funds, daytime classes and that underdeveloped work ethic, it's almost impossible to diligently pursue something.
- Yet, in the final analysis, they remain just that: underdeveloped suggestions that still require substantial clarification.
- He's awkward, he's aimless, he has no friends - he's a poster boy for emotionally underdeveloped young moderns everywhere, the victim of a nameless and invisible sickness of the societal soul.
- When the plot is so haphazard, the themes so underdeveloped, the characters so sketchy, such obvious imagery seems to be hopeless compensation for the film's failure to articulate anything else competently.
- Nonetheless, there are times in the film, especially during the second half, when the plot is somewhat scattered, leaving many introduced themes unfinished or underdeveloped.
- The real problem is tiny, underdeveloped lungs.
- We will do that, but I regret to report that in my experience, the internet is still an underdeveloped and relatively small phenomenon in their world.
- Some of the beats aren't bad, but there's just nothing exceptional about this album - no hooks and slightly underdeveloped voices - nothing really to keep you coming back.
Synonyms
stunted, small, short, little, tiny, petite, small-boned, slight, compact, minuscule, miniature, mini, diminutive, dwarfish, elfin, bantam, runtish, puny
1. 1.1 (of a country or region) not advanced economically.
  （国家，地区）不发达的，欠发达的
  a recurring issue in all underdeveloped countries is a lack of credit
  Example sentencesExamples
  He encouraged dialogue between the wealthy industrial nations and the underdeveloped countries.
  Under such a system, manufacturing organizations would be centred on those parts of the world where labour is both most competent and most tractable, leading to the economic development of underdeveloped regions.
  There are wealthy creditors and bankrupt debtors; there are super rich countries and underdeveloped countries, super wealthy speculators and impoverished malnourished children.
  Typically, students are not taught about the global economy and the impact of free trade on underdeveloped countries.
  He's absolutely correct about what we ought to do about those underdeveloped countries.
  Citizens of economically underdeveloped countries typically have shorter life expectancies than do citizens of the developed countries.
  As a result, satellites will be instrumental in helping to raise the standard of living in many underdeveloped countries where there is little or no communications infrastructure.
  A recurring issue in all underdeveloped countries is a lack of credit.
  The burden of debt is made even worse when it is considered that the area is one of the most economically underdeveloped regions in South Africa.
  Since it is still considered to be an underdeveloped country, most of the economy revolves around the import and export of food.
  It is possible to build a critical audience and a variety of tastes but that takes time and consistency, not an easy task for underdeveloped countries with no money or devotion to long-term goals.
  The U.S. must work with those underdeveloped nations to improve their quality of life.
  We have seen the migration of the garment industry from the developed world to the underdeveloped world.
  I have divided the thirteen largest underdeveloped countries into three groups: moderately advanced, intermediate, and poor.
  Most underdeveloped countries have not closed the development gap with advanced countries; very few have done so.
  We should be putting resources, people, and money, into helping underdeveloped countries deal with their own serious health problems.
  When economic expansion began to decline in the 1970s, it was more profitable to export capital to underdeveloped countries where wages were low, than to import workers.
  The global mining industry thereby makes national development under global capitalism extremely difficult for underdeveloped countries.
  The budget should reflect policy priorities of social needs cluster departments as a re-affirmation of government's strategic focus on developing the poor and underdeveloped communities.
  How citizens would be persuaded to make such a move remains unclear, and the assumption that these underdeveloped regions could offer enough profitable jobs to sustain a large influx of people is equally dubious.
2(of a photographic film) not developed sufficiently to give a normal image.
（胶卷）显影不足的

Derivatives

underdevelopment

nounˌʌndədɪˈvɛləpm(ə)ntˌəndərdəˈvɛləpmənt

mass noun

Incomplete or insufficient development.
countries hampered by economic underdevelopment
Example sentencesExamples
- underdevelopment of the thyroid
- At the same time there was a naïve belief that the problem of underdevelopment and poverty would find an easy, if not an automatic, solution with the dawn of independence.
- A pledge for a better tomorrow, a commitment by leaders to liberate the continent from what they call a malaise of underdevelopment and exclusion.
- There is also the unfair economic, trade and financial regimes that favour the developed world and in more than one way contribute to perpetuate the underdevelopment that plagues the region.

Rhymes

undeveloped

Definition of underdeveloped in US English:

underdeveloped

adjectiveˌəndərdəˈvɛləptˌəndərdəˈveləpt

1Not fully developed.
发育不全的
underdeveloped kidneys
发育不全的肾。
the community services are underfunded and underdeveloped
社区服务投资不足，发展不全。
Example sentencesExamples
- Nonetheless, there are times in the film, especially during the second half, when the plot is somewhat scattered, leaving many introduced themes unfinished or underdeveloped.
- What's worse, none of these genres is given enough time to develop, resulting in a scattered and underdeveloped plot.
- It's just not enough, though, because first, the characterisation is underdeveloped, and second, there is no attempt to establish an audience-character relationship.
- This country, he said, was a land of unlimited opportunities, with a growing middle class and an impressive savings rate, yet with an underdeveloped banking system ripe for reform.
- The old man watched her go, a slight underdeveloped girl, wearing a ragged pair of boys' shorts too big for her, a lustrous mop of untidy hair falling in glossy black waves almost to her bony shoulders.
- Without giving too much away, the tepid love story is just one of several underdeveloped subplots, all of which culminate with the men eventually entering the Royal Horticultural Society's garden contest.
- It's tough being a student; between lack of funds, daytime classes and that underdeveloped work ethic, it's almost impossible to diligently pursue something.
- She is often referred as odd and is picked on for being short and underdeveloped.
- During walks in the woods, Rusty, whose blindness is caused by underdeveloped retinas, would follow Dugan, staying right at his ear.
- When the plot is so haphazard, the themes so underdeveloped, the characters so sketchy, such obvious imagery seems to be hopeless compensation for the film's failure to articulate anything else competently.
- The band's songs are underdeveloped in the sense that they earnestly try to cram a catchy melody into every minute of every song, which dilutes the potency of the album as a whole.
- He's awkward, he's aimless, he has no friends - he's a poster boy for emotionally underdeveloped young moderns everywhere, the victim of a nameless and invisible sickness of the societal soul.
- Yet, in the final analysis, they remain just that: underdeveloped suggestions that still require substantial clarification.
- The city has been so underdeveloped for so long that there is plenty of capacity there.
- We will do that, but I regret to report that in my experience, the internet is still an underdeveloped and relatively small phenomenon in their world.
- Because the brain or respiratory system may be immature or underdeveloped, the baby may not be able to regulate his or her own breathing normally.
- The real problem is tiny, underdeveloped lungs.
- The arts market in Yorkshire is underdeveloped, yet we know there is enormous scope for growth.
- In 1903, a method of increasing the annual tax on vacant or underdeveloped land was adopted.
- Some of the beats aren't bad, but there's just nothing exceptional about this album - no hooks and slightly underdeveloped voices - nothing really to keep you coming back.
Synonyms
stunted, small, short, little, tiny, petite, small-boned, slight, compact, minuscule, miniature, mini, diminutive, dwarfish, elfin, bantam, runtish, puny
1. 1.1 (of a country or region) not advanced economically.
  （国家，地区）不发达的，欠发达的
  Example sentencesExamples
  The global mining industry thereby makes national development under global capitalism extremely difficult for underdeveloped countries.
  How citizens would be persuaded to make such a move remains unclear, and the assumption that these underdeveloped regions could offer enough profitable jobs to sustain a large influx of people is equally dubious.
  The burden of debt is made even worse when it is considered that the area is one of the most economically underdeveloped regions in South Africa.
  Under such a system, manufacturing organizations would be centred on those parts of the world where labour is both most competent and most tractable, leading to the economic development of underdeveloped regions.
  It is possible to build a critical audience and a variety of tastes but that takes time and consistency, not an easy task for underdeveloped countries with no money or devotion to long-term goals.
  We have seen the migration of the garment industry from the developed world to the underdeveloped world.
  When economic expansion began to decline in the 1970s, it was more profitable to export capital to underdeveloped countries where wages were low, than to import workers.
  Typically, students are not taught about the global economy and the impact of free trade on underdeveloped countries.
  We should be putting resources, people, and money, into helping underdeveloped countries deal with their own serious health problems.
  The budget should reflect policy priorities of social needs cluster departments as a re-affirmation of government's strategic focus on developing the poor and underdeveloped communities.
  I have divided the thirteen largest underdeveloped countries into three groups: moderately advanced, intermediate, and poor.
  He encouraged dialogue between the wealthy industrial nations and the underdeveloped countries.
  Most underdeveloped countries have not closed the development gap with advanced countries; very few have done so.
  He's absolutely correct about what we ought to do about those underdeveloped countries.
  Since it is still considered to be an underdeveloped country, most of the economy revolves around the import and export of food.
  A recurring issue in all underdeveloped countries is a lack of credit.
  There are wealthy creditors and bankrupt debtors; there are super rich countries and underdeveloped countries, super wealthy speculators and impoverished malnourished children.
  The U.S. must work with those underdeveloped nations to improve their quality of life.
  Citizens of economically underdeveloped countries typically have shorter life expectancies than do citizens of the developed countries.
  As a result, satellites will be instrumental in helping to raise the standard of living in many underdeveloped countries where there is little or no communications infrastructure.
2. 1.2 (of photographic film) not developed sufficiently to give a normal image.
  （胶卷）显影不足的

词汇	underdeveloped
释义	Definition of underdeveloped in English: underdeveloped adjectiveʌndədɪˈvɛləptˌəndərdəˈvɛləpt 1Not fully developed. 发育不全的 underdeveloped kidneys 发育不全的肾。 the community services are underfunded and underdeveloped 社区服务投资不足，发展不全。 Example sentencesExamples The band's songs are underdeveloped in the sense that they earnestly try to cram a catchy melody into every minute of every song, which dilutes the potency of the album as a whole. Without giving too much away, the tepid love story is just one of several underdeveloped subplots, all of which culminate with the men eventually entering the Royal Horticultural Society's garden contest. In 1903, a method of increasing the annual tax on vacant or underdeveloped land was adopted. The arts market in Yorkshire is underdeveloped, yet we know there is enormous scope for growth. Because the brain or respiratory system may be immature or underdeveloped, the baby may not be able to regulate his or her own breathing normally. This country, he said, was a land of unlimited opportunities, with a growing middle class and an impressive savings rate, yet with an underdeveloped banking system ripe for reform. What's worse, none of these genres is given enough time to develop, resulting in a scattered and underdeveloped plot. During walks in the woods, Rusty, whose blindness is caused by underdeveloped retinas, would follow Dugan, staying right at his ear. It's just not enough, though, because first, the characterisation is underdeveloped, and second, there is no attempt to establish an audience-character relationship. She is often referred as odd and is picked on for being short and underdeveloped. The city has been so underdeveloped for so long that there is plenty of capacity there. The old man watched her go, a slight underdeveloped girl, wearing a ragged pair of boys' shorts too big for her, a lustrous mop of untidy hair falling in glossy black waves almost to her bony shoulders. It's tough being a student; between lack of funds, daytime classes and that underdeveloped work ethic, it's almost impossible to diligently pursue something. Yet, in the final analysis, they remain just that: underdeveloped suggestions that still require substantial clarification. He's awkward, he's aimless, he has no friends - he's a poster boy for emotionally underdeveloped young moderns everywhere, the victim of a nameless and invisible sickness of the societal soul. When the plot is so haphazard, the themes so underdeveloped, the characters so sketchy, such obvious imagery seems to be hopeless compensation for the film's failure to articulate anything else competently. Nonetheless, there are times in the film, especially during the second half, when the plot is somewhat scattered, leaving many introduced themes unfinished or underdeveloped. The real problem is tiny, underdeveloped lungs. We will do that, but I regret to report that in my experience, the internet is still an underdeveloped and relatively small phenomenon in their world. Some of the beats aren't bad, but there's just nothing exceptional about this album - no hooks and slightly underdeveloped voices - nothing really to keep you coming back. Synonyms stunted, small, short, little, tiny, petite, small-boned, slight, compact, minuscule, miniature, mini, diminutive, dwarfish, elfin, bantam, runtish, puny 1.1 (of a country or region) not advanced economically. （国家，地区）不发达的，欠发达的 a recurring issue in all underdeveloped countries is a lack of credit Example sentencesExamples He encouraged dialogue between the wealthy industrial nations and the underdeveloped countries. Under such a system, manufacturing organizations would be centred on those parts of the world where labour is both most competent and most tractable, leading to the economic development of underdeveloped regions. There are wealthy creditors and bankrupt debtors; there are super rich countries and underdeveloped countries, super wealthy speculators and impoverished malnourished children. Typically, students are not taught about the global economy and the impact of free trade on underdeveloped countries. He's absolutely correct about what we ought to do about those underdeveloped countries. Citizens of economically underdeveloped countries typically have shorter life expectancies than do citizens of the developed countries. As a result, satellites will be instrumental in helping to raise the standard of living in many underdeveloped countries where there is little or no communications infrastructure. A recurring issue in all underdeveloped countries is a lack of credit. The burden of debt is made even worse when it is considered that the area is one of the most economically underdeveloped regions in South Africa. Since it is still considered to be an underdeveloped country, most of the economy revolves around the import and export of food. It is possible to build a critical audience and a variety of tastes but that takes time and consistency, not an easy task for underdeveloped countries with no money or devotion to long-term goals. The U.S. must work with those underdeveloped nations to improve their quality of life. We have seen the migration of the garment industry from the developed world to the underdeveloped world. I have divided the thirteen largest underdeveloped countries into three groups: moderately advanced, intermediate, and poor. Most underdeveloped countries have not closed the development gap with advanced countries; very few have done so. We should be putting resources, people, and money, into helping underdeveloped countries deal with their own serious health problems. When economic expansion began to decline in the 1970s, it was more profitable to export capital to underdeveloped countries where wages were low, than to import workers. The global mining industry thereby makes national development under global capitalism extremely difficult for underdeveloped countries. The budget should reflect policy priorities of social needs cluster departments as a re-affirmation of government's strategic focus on developing the poor and underdeveloped communities. How citizens would be persuaded to make such a move remains unclear, and the assumption that these underdeveloped regions could offer enough profitable jobs to sustain a large influx of people is equally dubious. 2(of a photographic film) not developed sufficiently to give a normal image. （胶卷）显影不足的 Derivatives underdevelopment nounˌʌndədɪˈvɛləpm(ə)ntˌəndərdəˈvɛləpmənt mass noun Incomplete or insufficient development. countries hampered by economic underdevelopment Example sentencesExamples underdevelopment of the thyroid At the same time there was a naïve belief that the problem of underdevelopment and poverty would find an easy, if not an automatic, solution with the dawn of independence. A pledge for a better tomorrow, a commitment by leaders to liberate the continent from what they call a malaise of underdevelopment and exclusion. There is also the unfair economic, trade and financial regimes that favour the developed world and in more than one way contribute to perpetuate the underdevelopment that plagues the region. Rhymes undeveloped Definition of underdeveloped in US English: underdeveloped adjectiveˌəndərdəˈvɛləptˌəndərdəˈveləpt 1Not fully developed. 发育不全的 underdeveloped kidneys 发育不全的肾。 the community services are underfunded and underdeveloped 社区服务投资不足，发展不全。 Example sentencesExamples Nonetheless, there are times in the film, especially during the second half, when the plot is somewhat scattered, leaving many introduced themes unfinished or underdeveloped. What's worse, none of these genres is given enough time to develop, resulting in a scattered and underdeveloped plot. It's just not enough, though, because first, the characterisation is underdeveloped, and second, there is no attempt to establish an audience-character relationship. This country, he said, was a land of unlimited opportunities, with a growing middle class and an impressive savings rate, yet with an underdeveloped banking system ripe for reform. The old man watched her go, a slight underdeveloped girl, wearing a ragged pair of boys' shorts too big for her, a lustrous mop of untidy hair falling in glossy black waves almost to her bony shoulders. Without giving too much away, the tepid love story is just one of several underdeveloped subplots, all of which culminate with the men eventually entering the Royal Horticultural Society's garden contest. It's tough being a student; between lack of funds, daytime classes and that underdeveloped work ethic, it's almost impossible to diligently pursue something. She is often referred as odd and is picked on for being short and underdeveloped. During walks in the woods, Rusty, whose blindness is caused by underdeveloped retinas, would follow Dugan, staying right at his ear. When the plot is so haphazard, the themes so underdeveloped, the characters so sketchy, such obvious imagery seems to be hopeless compensation for the film's failure to articulate anything else competently. The band's songs are underdeveloped in the sense that they earnestly try to cram a catchy melody into every minute of every song, which dilutes the potency of the album as a whole. He's awkward, he's aimless, he has no friends - he's a poster boy for emotionally underdeveloped young moderns everywhere, the victim of a nameless and invisible sickness of the societal soul. Yet, in the final analysis, they remain just that: underdeveloped suggestions that still require substantial clarification. The city has been so underdeveloped for so long that there is plenty of capacity there. We will do that, but I regret to report that in my experience, the internet is still an underdeveloped and relatively small phenomenon in their world. Because the brain or respiratory system may be immature or underdeveloped, the baby may not be able to regulate his or her own breathing normally. The real problem is tiny, underdeveloped lungs. The arts market in Yorkshire is underdeveloped, yet we know there is enormous scope for growth. In 1903, a method of increasing the annual tax on vacant or underdeveloped land was adopted. Some of the beats aren't bad, but there's just nothing exceptional about this album - no hooks and slightly underdeveloped voices - nothing really to keep you coming back. Synonyms stunted, small, short, little, tiny, petite, small-boned, slight, compact, minuscule, miniature, mini, diminutive, dwarfish, elfin, bantam, runtish, puny 1.1 (of a country or region) not advanced economically. （国家，地区）不发达的，欠发达的 Example sentencesExamples The global mining industry thereby makes national development under global capitalism extremely difficult for underdeveloped countries. How citizens would be persuaded to make such a move remains unclear, and the assumption that these underdeveloped regions could offer enough profitable jobs to sustain a large influx of people is equally dubious. The burden of debt is made even worse when it is considered that the area is one of the most economically underdeveloped regions in South Africa. Under such a system, manufacturing organizations would be centred on those parts of the world where labour is both most competent and most tractable, leading to the economic development of underdeveloped regions. It is possible to build a critical audience and a variety of tastes but that takes time and consistency, not an easy task for underdeveloped countries with no money or devotion to long-term goals. We have seen the migration of the garment industry from the developed world to the underdeveloped world. When economic expansion began to decline in the 1970s, it was more profitable to export capital to underdeveloped countries where wages were low, than to import workers. Typically, students are not taught about the global economy and the impact of free trade on underdeveloped countries. We should be putting resources, people, and money, into helping underdeveloped countries deal with their own serious health problems. The budget should reflect policy priorities of social needs cluster departments as a re-affirmation of government's strategic focus on developing the poor and underdeveloped communities. I have divided the thirteen largest underdeveloped countries into three groups: moderately advanced, intermediate, and poor. He encouraged dialogue between the wealthy industrial nations and the underdeveloped countries. Most underdeveloped countries have not closed the development gap with advanced countries; very few have done so. He's absolutely correct about what we ought to do about those underdeveloped countries. Since it is still considered to be an underdeveloped country, most of the economy revolves around the import and export of food. A recurring issue in all underdeveloped countries is a lack of credit. There are wealthy creditors and bankrupt debtors; there are super rich countries and underdeveloped countries, super wealthy speculators and impoverished malnourished children. The U.S. must work with those underdeveloped nations to improve their quality of life. Citizens of economically underdeveloped countries typically have shorter life expectancies than do citizens of the developed countries. As a result, satellites will be instrumental in helping to raise the standard of living in many underdeveloped countries where there is little or no communications infrastructure. 1.2 (of photographic film) not developed sufficiently to give a normal image. （胶卷）显影不足的
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