0 (especially of a country) without modern industry or modern services that provide transport, hospitals, etc.:
1 having little or no modern industry, few modern services, and a weak economy:
Many of these regions are very underdeveloped.
When they are released, the embryo is differentiated but underdeveloped.
Second, although the countries of the region are economically underdeveloped, prosperity and development remain major goals in the articulation of their foreign policies.
By such a process all underdeveloped nations would achieve economic maturity.
Interventions for caregivers of persons at end of life, however, are relatively few in number and are often underdeveloped.
No public explanation has been offered for lavishing special benefits on these four favoured provinces rather than neighbouring and equally underdeveloped provinces.
Population ethics is an underdeveloped field of inquiry.
The economy is still underdeveloped, with low manufactured and hightechnology exports, low expenditure on research and development, and small numbers of computers and mobile phones.
Rather, they championed capitalism, but from the perspective of an underdeveloped nation.
