verb
- Process (a film or photographic plate) less than the required time or in an ineffective solution or at an insufficiently high temperature.
- usage: "These photos are underdeveloped"
- synonyms: underdevelop
adjective
- Relating to societies in which capital needed to industrialize is in short supply.
- synonyms: developing
- Not yet fully developed. .
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