UNDERDEVELOPMENT Synonyms

• lack of normal development of intellectual capacities

• a brutal barbarous savage act

• a state of extreme poverty

• the disadvantage that results from losing something

• act of depriving someone of food or money or rights

• not having reached maturity

• the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble

• an inability (usually of the male animal) to copulate

• insulation used to wrap around pipes or boilers or laid in attics to prevent loss of heat

• a position of inferior status; low in station or rank or fortune or estimation

• a feeling of low spirits

• the quality of being low; lacking height

• a low or small degree of any quality (amount or force or temperature etc.)

• the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions

• a wild or unrefined state

• a chilly dampness

• the state of being crude and incomplete and imperfect

• a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched)

• lack of experience and the knowledge and understanding derived from experience

• a decrease in rate of change

• the extent to which something is delayed or held back

• any agent that retards or delays or hinders

• lack of normal development of intellectual capacities

• the act of slowing down or falling behind

• passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form

• returning to a former state

• a state of inactivity (in business or art etc)

• inactivity of liquids; being stagnant; standing still; without current or circulation