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HIGHLY-DEVELOPED Antonyms

There are 4 antonyms of the word highly-developed. (opposite meanings)

Best Opposite Words For HIGHLY-DEVELOPED

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backward
adverb, adjectiveadv, adj
adjective

• directed or facing toward the back or rear

• (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature

adverb

• at or to or toward the back or rear

• in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal

• in or to or toward a past time

adjective satellite

• retarded in intellectual development

• having made less than normal progress

primitive
noun, adjectiven, adj
noun

• a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization

• a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived

• a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms

adjective satellite

• belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness

• little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type

• used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies

• of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style

rudimentary
adjectiveadj
adjective satellite

• being or involving basic facts or principles

• being in the earliest stages of development

• not fully developed in mature animals

underdeveloped
adjectiveadj
adjective satellite

• relating to societies in which capital needed to industrialize is in short supply

• not yet fully developed

Alternatives for BACKWARD

Alternatives for PRIMITIVE

Alternatives for RUDIMENTARY

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