Dictionary entry

Underdeveloped

Pronunciation: /ʌndədɪˈvɛləpt/

Pronunciation

/ʌndədɪˈvɛləpt/

Myanmar Meaning

မဖွံ့ဖြိုးသေးသော၊ မရင့်ကျက်သေးသော။ အသုံးမပြုရသေးသည့် သယံဇာတရှိသော။

Definition

underdeveloped / ʌndǝdÇ'velǝpt / adj စီးပြားမဖြံ႕ၿဖိဳးေသးေသာ (ႏိုင္ငံစသည္)။ underdevelopment n [U]

Examples

  1. ‘He's awkward
  2. he's aimless
  3. he has no friends - he's a poster boy for emotionally underdeveloped young moderns everywhere
  4. the victim of a nameless and invisible sickness of the societal soul.’
  5. ‘It's just not enough
  6. though
  7. because first
  8. the characterisation is underdeveloped
  9. and second
  10. there is no attempt to establish an audience-character relationship.’
  11. ‘The city has been so underdeveloped for so long that there is plenty of capacity there.’
  12. ‘Some of the beats aren't bad
  13. but there's just nothing exceptional about this album - no hooks and slightly underdeveloped voices - nothing really to keep you coming back.’
  14. ‘Because the brain or respiratory system may be immature or underdeveloped
  15. the baby may not be able to regulate his or her own breathing normally.’
  16. ‘We will do that
  17. but I regret to report that in my experience
  18. the internet is still an underdeveloped and relatively small phenomenon in their world.’
  19. ‘It's tough being a student; between lack of funds
  20. daytime classes and that underdeveloped work ethic
  21. it's almost impossible to diligently pursue something.’
  22. ‘The real problem is tiny
  23. underdeveloped lungs.’
  24. ‘She is often referred as odd and is picked on for being short and underdeveloped.’
  25. ‘When the plot is so haphazard
  26. the themes so underdeveloped
  27. the characters so sketchy
  28. such obvious imagery seems to be hopeless compensation for the film's failure to articulate anything else competently.’
  29. ‘The old man watched her go
  30. a slight underdeveloped girl
  31. wearing a ragged pair of boys' shorts too big for her
  32. a lustrous mop of untidy hair falling in glossy black waves almost to her bony shoulders.’
  33. ‘This country
  34. he said
  35. was a land of unlimited opportunities
  36. with a growing middle class and an impressive savings rate
  37. yet with an underdeveloped banking system ripe for reform.’
  38. ‘The band's songs are underdeveloped in the sense that they earnestly try to cram a catchy melody into every minute of every song
  39. which dilutes the potency of the album as a whole.’
  40. ‘Without giving too much away
  41. the tepid love story is just one of several underdeveloped subplots
  42. all of which culminate with the men eventually entering the Royal Horticultural Society's garden contest.’
  43. ‘What's worse
  44. none of these genres is given enough time to develop
  45. resulting in a scattered and underdeveloped plot.’
  46. ‘Yet
  47. in the final analysis
  48. they remain just that: underdeveloped suggestions that still require substantial clarification.’
  49. ‘The arts market in Yorkshire is underdeveloped
  50. yet we know there is enormous scope for growth.’
  51. ‘In 1903
  52. a method of increasing the annual tax on vacant or underdeveloped land was adopted.’
  53. ‘During walks in the woods
  54. Rusty
  55. whose blindness is caused by underdeveloped retinas
  56. would follow Dugan
  57. staying right at his ear.’
  58. ‘Nonetheless
  59. there are times in the film