1.
[syn: developing, underdeveloped]
2. not yet fully developed;
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
underdeveloped
adj 1: relating to societies in which capital needed to
industrialize is in short supply [syn: developing,
underdeveloped]
2: not yet fully developed
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
64 Moby Thesaurus words for "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