Undeveloped

Definition: Undeveloped

Undeveloped

Adjective

1. Not developed; "courses in interior design were rare and undeveloped"; "undeveloped social awareness".

2. Undeveloped or unused; "vast unexploited (or undeveloped) natural resources".

3. (of real estate) not built upon or ready for building upon; "taxes on undeveloped lots are low".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "undeveloped" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1762. (references)

Synonym: Undeveloped

Latency Implication

Undeveloped, solved, unexplained, untraced, undiscovered; a, untracked, unexplored, uninvented.

Crosswords: Undeveloped

Nothing but undeveloped, unevolved, barely conscience pond scum, totally convinced of their own superiority as they scurry about in short pointless lives. (Men in Black; writing credit: Ed Solomon)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The World Market for Exposed, Undeveloped Photographic Plates, Film, Paper, Paperboard, and Textiles: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• A transformed colony, Sierra Leone, as it was, and as it is; its progress, peoples, native customs and undeveloped wealth (reference)

• Economies Undeveloped Countries (reference)

• Intellectual Property: Patents, Trademarks, Copyright, Trade Secrets, Undeveloped Ideas, Unfair Competition, Semiconductor Chip Protection, Right of Publicity, Federal & sta (The Professor Series) (reference)

• International Economy and the Undeveloped World, 1865-1914 (reference)

• Near-Surface Water Balance of an Undeveloped Upland Site in West-Central Florida (U.S. Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper, 2452) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Undeveloped Diseases Need for Survival EP [EP] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument was designated by President Clinton in January 2000. The monuments remote open, undeveloped area and engaging scenery is located on the edge of the Grand Canyon. Credit: Bette Ariel.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

The undeveloped state of the class struggle, as well as their own surroundings, causes Socialists of this kind to consider themselves far superior to all class antagonisms. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Men with CF are generally infertile because the tubules, called the vas deferens, that transport sperm from the testes are absent or undeveloped. (references)

Business

At present cogeneration is an undeveloped resource despite its considerable potential. (references)

The Korean crane industry represents one of the most undeveloped construction equipment sectors in Korea. (references)

During the Soviet era, telecommunications sector in the Russian Far East was poorly financed and undeveloped. (references)

Economic History

Burma

Services, which account for 7.7 percent of GDP, are still largely undeveloped. (references)

Kenya

Biomass, though cheaper to use and in plentiful supply in rural Kenya, remains undeveloped. (references)

Burma

Highly negative real interest rates and an undeveloped banking system deter business activity. (references)

Political Economy

THE BAHAMAS

Foreign persons are still eligible for a two-year real property tax exemption if they acquire undeveloped land in The Bahamas provided that substantial development occurs during the first two years of the purchase. (references)

Trade

Pakistan

Consumer banking in Pakistan is largely undeveloped. (references)

Burma

The financial sector in Burma is highly undeveloped. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "undeveloped": undeveloped country ♦ undeveloped land ♦ undeveloped proven reserve. Additional references.

Albanian

i pazhvilluar (embryonic, immature, inchoate, inchoative, slack-baked, uncultured, underdeveloped), i papunuar (raw, uncultivated). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غير منتج (non-productive, unproductive), ‏غير متطور (rudimentary, underdeveloped), ‏بدون جدوى. (various references)

Bulgarian 

неразработен, неразвит (fallow, in embryo, inchoate), незастроен (blank), непроявен. (various references)

Chinese 

未开展. (various references)

Czech

zaostalý (backward, behindhand, subnormal, underdeveloped), nevyvinutý (underdeveloped), neobdìlávaný (uncultivated), málo vyvinutý (underdeveloped). (various references)

Danish

ubebygget areal (undeveloped area), ubebyggede grunde (undeveloped land), raajordsvaerdi (value of undeveloped land, value of unimproved land), raajord (undeveloped land, unimproved land), potentielle ressourcer (undeveloped proven reserve), ikke-byggemoden jord (undeveloped land), baandoptagelser og ufremkaldte film (tape recordings and undeveloped films). (various references)

Dutch

onbebouwd gebied (undeveloped area), niet ontwikkelde bewezen reserve (undeveloped proven reserve), niet ontsloten gebied (undeveloped land), bandopnamen en niet-ontwikkelde films (tape recordings and undeveloped films). (various references)

Finnish

kehittymätön (infantile). (various references)

French

sous-développé (underdeveloped), qui n'est pas développé, non exploité, non développé, chétif (undersized), atrophié. (various references)

German

unentwickelt (embryologic). (various references)

Greek 

μη αναπτηγμένοσ, υποανάπτυκτοσ (backward). (various references)

Hebrew 

לא מפותח (immature). (various references)

Hungarian

fejletlen (backward, immature, inchoate, underdeveloped). (various references)

Italian

embrionale (embryologic, embryological, embryonal, embryonic, germinal). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

未開発 (backward, unentered), 未開�" (wild), 未発�" . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

みかいたく (wild), みかいはつ (backward, unentered), みはったつ. (various references)

Manx

gyn aase, fiosagh (delicate, tender, underdeveloped, underdeveloped child, undersized, undersized of persons). (various references)

Pig Latin

evelopedunday

Portuguese

pouco desenvolvido (confined, limited partnership, underdeveloped), por revelar, não desenvolvido. (various references)

Russian 

неразвитой, необработанный (coarse, crude, green, raw, rude, undressed, unimproved, unrefined, untilled). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nerazvijen (underdeveloped, unformed). (various references)

Spanish

verde (bawdy, dirty, green, greeny, low, lower, naughty, rude, verdant), subdesarrollado (underdeveloped), sin revelar (undisclosed), sin explotar, sin cultivar, inmaturo (immature). (various references)

Swedish

outvecklad (in embryo, inchoate). (various references)

Turkish

tab edilmemiş, işlenmemiş (crude, raw, rough, rude, unbroken, uncommitted, uncultivated, uncut, undressed, unfinished, unlaboured, unreclaimed, untilled, unworked), gelişmemiş (backward, embryonic, immature, inchoate, puny, underdeveloped, unimproved). (various references)

Ukrainian

нерозвинений (dwarfish, inchoate, unformed), необроблений (coarse, crude, natural, nontreated, raw, rough, uncultivated, undressed, unfinished, waste, wild), незабудований (blank). (various references)

Vietnamese 

không rèn luyện, không mở mang trí tuệ, không mở mang, không khuếch trương. (various references)

rudis. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: developed, enveloped.

-3 letters: develope, envelope, loudened, unpeeled.

-4 letters: deponed, develed, develop, dovened, envelop, needled, pounded, unloved, upended.

-5 letters: deepen, delude, delved, denude, depend, depone, dudeen, dueled, duende, eleven, elevon, eloped, eluded, endued, evened, leveed, louden, louped, loupen, needed, needle, noddle, nodule, opened, peddle, peeled, peened, peeved, pended, ponded, puddle, updove, vended, vendee, vendue, venule.

+3 letters: underdeveloped.

+5 letters: underdevelopment.

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