verb
- to develop insufficiently or incompletely
Usage: often used in photography and economics
Examples
- The photographer accidentally underdeveloped the film, making the images too light.
- Poor funding caused the school district to underdevelop its science programs.
- The region’s infrastructure was underdeveloped due to years of neglect.
- If you underdevelop the negative, you won’t get clear prints.
- Economic sanctions can cause a country to underdevelop its industrial capacity.
- The software team chose to underdevelop certain features to meet the deadline.