undeveloping

Examples

• All

• According to him, a flat character is both simple and undeveloping.

  Academic text (1990)

• Although these criteria often co-exist, there are fictional characters that are complex but undeveloping (e.g., Joyce's Bloom) and others that are simple but developing (e.g., the allegorical Everyman).

  Academic text (1990)

• All right, so to keep this thing going, another tip on how to deal with an emotionally undeveloped man is consider couples counseling.

• The presentation focused on the consequences of undeveloping educational systems in various countries.

• His career was stagnant, marked by undeveloping skills that hindered his professional growth.

Synonyms

U

undeveloped

vsundeveloping

3 4.2

Ideas or skills not fully formed and needing more work

focuses on stopped or absent growth rather than initial incompleteness

U

underdeveloped

vsundeveloping

3 4.3

Not grown enough to reach the normal size, skill, or quality

is about not growing or stopping progress over time

Antonyms

D

developing

3.7

A country with less industry and lower living standards

A

advancing

3.4

Moving forward or making progress slowly and steadily

How Developed

thriving

6 3.8

developing

3.7

undeveloping

8.7

stagnant

46 4.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology