Underdevelopment refers to the state of lack or insufficient progress in social, political, economic or technological structures. Alternatively, the antonyms to underdevelopment are progress or development. Development implies improvements in the economies, technologies, infrastructure or social structures such as health, education, and other essential services. Economic growth, increase in GDP, and advanced technology are some of the markers of development. Promotion of better governance structures, sustainable utilization of natural resources, and equitable distribution of resources are some of the initiatives necessary to achieve development. Thus, underdevelopment's antonyms suggest growth, advancements, and welfare in various fields.

What are the antonyms for Underdevelopment?

• n.

  • barrenness
  • fecundity
  ,
  • fertility
  ,
  • fruitfulness
  .
  • development, progress
  • growth
  .
  • growth
  • Funguses
  ,
  • Germinations
  ,
  • beefing ups
  ,
  • cancroid
  ,
  • cancroids
  ,
  • evolution
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  • ex tension
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  • ex-tension
  ,
  • ex-tensions
  ,
  • fibrous tissue
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  • fibrousness
  ,
  • fibrousnesses
  ,
  • fleshing out
  ,
  • fleshing outs
  ,
  • flowerings
  ,
  • fungi
  ,
  • fungus
  ,
  • germination
  ,
  • heightenings
  ,
  • in crease
  ,
  • in creases
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  • in-crease
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  • in-creases
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  • maturation
  ,
  • maturations
  ,
  • multi plication
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  • multi plications
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  • multi-plication
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  • multi-plications
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  • out growths
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  • out-growths
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  • para site
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  • para sites
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  • para-site
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  • para-sites
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  • pro duce
  ,
  • pro duces
  ,
  • pro-duces
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  • sproutings
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  • stretching
  ,
  • stretchings
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  • thickening
  ,
  • thickenings
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  • un folding
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  • un-folding
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  • uppings
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  • waxings
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  • wen
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  • wens
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  • widenings
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  • impecuniousness
  • benefit
  ,
  • blessing
  ,
  • comfort
  ,
  • lot
  ,
  • pleasure
  ,
  • satisfaction
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  • poverty
  • abundance
  ,
  • adequacy
  ,
  • advantage
  ,
  • affluence
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  • ease
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  • enough
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  • excess
  ,
  • fill
  ,
  • luxury
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  • plenty
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  • profit
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  • richness
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  • sufficiency
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  • surplus
  ,
  • wealth
  .

Famous quotes with Underdevelopment

• I sometimes think that the acronyms BC and BCE probably stand for 'Before Coffee' and 'Before the Coffee Era' respectively, signifying those primitive historic years of underdevelopment. Coffee has strongly contributed to the development of many scientific breakthroughs, inventions, creative arts, and literature, IMHO. So, on National Coffee Day today, here's a Toast to the Roast - light, medium and dark alike: May your Cup of Coffee be just like the Capital of Ireland - always Dublin! Cheers!

  Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
• A people that began to think as citizens rather than subjects might transcend underdevelopment on their own. Inalienable human right is unique in that it needs no superhuman guarantee; no 'fount' except itself. Only servility requires the realm (suggestive word) of illusion. Illusions, of course, cannot be abolished. But they can and must be outgrown.

  Christopher Hitchens
• Since the Persian monarchy began some 2550 years ago, Iran has had more than 350 kings. No fewer than half of them were either assassinated or killed in battle. Many went into exile to escape death. Iran's long history is full of fallen crowns and shattered imperial dreams. Of Mohammad-Reza Shah's five immediate predecessors, one was assassinated and three were forced into exile. What makes Mohammad-Reza Shah's tragedy special is that he was, perhaps, the first Iranian king in more than a century to have a real possibility of ending his reign peacefully and dying in his own country. That this was not the case was, to a large extent, the result of Iran's chronic political underdevelopment. But the Shah's own failure to operate within the realities of Iranian society - unpleasant as they undoubtedly were - contributed to his downfall and its dramatic consequences for the nation as a whole. The fall of the Shah was, in a since, the prelude to more than a decade of instability in the region, culminating in the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and the subsequent massacre of Kurds and shi'ites in Mesopotamia. It may take Iran and her region many more years before the shockwaves unleashed by the fall of the Shah are fully absorbed.

  Amir Taheri

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