OVERDEVELOPING Antonyms
Best Opposite Words For OVERDEVELOPING
| Word | Save | Syns.. | Usage | Type | ||
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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 | ||||||
| delayed | verb, adjectivev, adj | |||||
adjective satellite • not as far along as normal in development | ||||||
| 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 | ||||||
| regressive | adjectiveadj | |||||
adjective • (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate decreases as the amount of income increases • opposing progress; returning to a former less advanced state | ||||||
| underdeveloped | adjectiveadj | |||||
adjective satellite • relating to societies in which capital needed to industrialize is in short supply • not yet fully developed | ||||||
| undeveloped | adjectiveadj | |||||
adjective • not developed, mature, or fully formulated • not developed, improved, exploited or used | ||||||
| unprogressive | adjectiveadj | |||||
adjective satellite • old-fashioned and out of date | ||||||
| unevolved | adjectiveadj | |||||
adjective • Not evolved; yet to evolve. | ||||||
| underdevelop | verbv | |||||
verb • process (a film or photographic plate) less than the required time or in an ineffective solution or at an insufficiently high temperature | ||||||