underdeveloped
/ʌndədɪˈvɛləpt/
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American sound/ʌndədɪˈvɛləpt/
ʌndədɪˈvɛləpt
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ʌndədɪ - ˈvɛləpt -> underdeveloped
Myanmar meaning
မဖွံ့ဖြိုးသေးသော၊ မရင့်ကျက်သေးသော။ အသုံးမပြုရသေးသည့် သယံဇာတရှိသော။
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underdeveloped / ʌndǝdÇ'velǝpt / adj
စီးပွားမဖွံ့ဖြိုးသေးသော (နိုင်ငံစသည်)။ underdevelopment n [U]
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- ‘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.’
- ‘It's just not enough, though, because first, the characterisation is underdeveloped, and second, there is no attempt to establish an audience-character relationship.’
- ‘The city has been so underdeveloped for so long that there is plenty of capacity there.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘The real problem is tiny, underdeveloped lungs.’
- ‘She is often referred as odd and is picked on for being short and underdeveloped.’
- ‘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 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.’
- ‘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 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.’
- ‘What's worse, none of these genres is given enough time to develop, resulting in a scattered and underdeveloped plot.’
- ‘Yet, in the final analysis, they remain just that: underdeveloped suggestions that still require substantial clarification.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘During walks in the woods, Rusty, whose blindness is caused by underdeveloped retinas, would follow Dugan, staying right at his ear.’
- ‘Nonetheless, there are times in the film
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