Underdeveloped backwater Synonyms

Definitions for Underdeveloped


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

Definitions for Backwater


  • (noun) a rural region that forms the edge of the settled or developed part of a country
  • (noun) a body of water that was created by a flood or tide or by being held or forced back by a dam
  • (noun) a place or condition in which no development or progress is occurring