undeveloped

(ˌʌndɪˈvɛləpt)

adj

not having developed or been developed

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

un•de•vel•oped

(ˌʌn dɪˈvɛl əpt)

adj.

not developed.

[1730–40]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Adj.	1.	undeveloped - not developed; "courses in interior design were rare and undeveloped"; "undeveloped social awareness" developed - being changed over time so as to be e.g. stronger or more complete or more useful; "the developed qualities of the Hellenic outlook"; "they have very small limbs with only two fully developed toes on each"
	2.	undeveloped - undeveloped or unused; "vast unexploited (or undeveloped) natural resources"; "taxes on undeveloped lots are low" unexploited

undeveloped

adjective potential, immature, embryonic, in embryo damage to the undeveloped foetus

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

undeveloped

adjective

Not progressing and developing as fast as others, as in economic and social aspects:

backward, lagging, underdeveloped.

Translations

embrionale non sviluppato

undeveloped

[ˈʌndɪˈveləpt] ADJ

1. [country, nation] → no desarrollado; [land, area, resources] → sin explotar

2. (= immature) [person] → sin desarrollar

3. [film] → sin revelar

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

undeveloped

[ˌʌndɪˈvɛləpt] adj

[land, resources] → non exploité(e)

[country, region] → non développé(e)

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

undeveloped

adj → unentwickelt; land, resources → ungenutzt

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

undeveloped

[ˌʌndɪˈvɛləpt] adj (land, resources) → non sfruttato/a

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

undeveloped

a. no desarrollado-a, sin manifestación.

English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

Mentioned in

References in classic literature

The first direct attempts of the proletariat to attain its own ends, made in times of universal excitement, when feudal society was being overthrown, these attempts necessarily failed, owing to the then undeveloped state of the proletariat, as well as to the absence of the economic conditions for its emancipation, conditions that had yet to be produced, and could be produced by the impending bourgeois epoch alone.

View in context

It is a German conceit, that the vertebrae are absolutely undeveloped skulls.

View in context

Her slender bare arms and neck were not beautiful- compared to Helene's her shoulders looked thin and her bosom undeveloped. But Helene seemed, as it were, hardened by a varnish left by the thousands of looks that had scanned her person, while Natasha was like a girl exposed for the first time, who would have felt very much ashamed had she not been assured that this was absolutely necessary.

View in context

The children of the poor are therefore allowed to "feel" from their earliest years, and they gain thereby a precocity and an early vivacity which contrast at first most favourably with the inert, undeveloped, and listless behaviour of the half-instructed youths of the Polygonal class; but when the latter have at last completed their University course, and are prepared to put their theory into practice, the change that comes over them may almost be described as a new birth, and in every art, science, and social pursuit they rapidly overtake and distance their Triangular competitors.

View in context

From what we knew of von Schoenvorts, we would not have been surprised at anything from him; but the footprints by the spring seemed indisputable evidence that one of Caprona's undeveloped men had borne off the girl I loved.

View in context

"Sell them to countries with undeveloped resources," Mr.

View in context

For the people on whom they fell these barbarians were a pitiless and terrible scourge; yet they possessed in undeveloped form the intelligence, the energy, the strength--most of the qualities of head and heart and body--which were to make of them one of the great world-races.

View in context

Each picture told a story; mysterious often to my undeveloped understanding and imperfect feelings, yet ever profoundly interesting: as interesting as the tales Bessie sometimes narrated on winter evenings, when she chanced to be in good humour; and when, having brought her ironing-table to the nursery hearth, she allowed us to sit about it, and while she got up Mrs.

View in context

A servant-maid--corporeally enormous; but, as I soon found, in a totally undeveloped state, mentally--opened the door.

View in context

And Sergey Ivanovitch put before him the alternative: either you are so undeveloped that you can't see all that you can do, or you won't sacrifice your ease, your vanity, or whatever it is, to do it.

View in context

Possibly, indeed, it had been Holgrave's purpose to let them die in their undeveloped germs.

View in context

If the life of the elder sister was destined henceforth to be the ripening ground of the undeveloped Good that was in her -was the life of the younger doomed to be the battle-field of mortal conflict with the roused forces of Evil in herself?

View in context