underdeveloped love

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Not fully developed.
  • adjective Processed in too weak a developing solution, or for too short a time, or at too low a temperature to produce a normal degree of contrast. Used of film.
  • adjective Having a low level of economic productivity and technological sophistication within the contemporary range of possibility; developing.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective immature and not fully developed
  • adjective having a low level of economic productivity and technological sophistication
  • adjective photography of a film that has had insufficient development before being fixed
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of underdevelop.

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  • adjective not yet fully developed
  • adjective relating to societies in which capital needed to industrialize is in short supply

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