Usually means: Fail to develop to potential.
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  1. underdevelop: Collins English Dictionary
  2. underdevelop: Vocabulary.com
  3. underdevelop: Wiktionary
  4. underdevelop: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  5. underdevelop: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  6. underdevelop: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. underdevelop: Dictionary.com
  8. underdevelop: Rhymezone
  9. underdevelop: FreeDictionary.org
  10. underdevelop: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. underdevelop: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ verb:  To develop insufficiently.

Similar:
immature, flat, nonindustrial, developing, underprovide, underbuild, undermodify, underfeed, underconsume, underproduce, more...

Opposite:
overdevelop, advance, progress, improve

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Similar:
immature, flat, nonindustrial, developing, underprovide, underbuild, undermodify, underfeed, underconsume, underproduce, more...

Opposite:
overdevelop, advance, progress, improve



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