Dictionary entry
Underdeveloped
Pronunciation: /ʌndədɪˈvɛləpt/
Pronunciation
/ʌndədɪˈvɛləpt/
Myanmar Meaning
မဖွံ့ဖြိုးသေးသော၊ မရင့်ကျက်သေးသော။ အသုံးမပြုရသေးသည့် သယံဇာတရှိသော။
Definition
underdeveloped / ʌndǝdÇ'velǝpt / adj စီးပြားမဖြံ႕ၿဖိဳးေသးေသာ (ႏိုင္ငံစသည္)။ underdevelopment n [U]
Examples
- ‘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