undeveloped
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of undeveloped
Example Sentences
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Billionaire oil baron Harold Hamm signed a tentative agreement Wednesday to venture into Venezuela to explore one of the Latin American country’s undeveloped heavy-oil fields.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
We drove past an undeveloped beach—no facilities, just a handful of people taking a dip—and up to a viewpoint where there was a military outpost containing one soldier and his dog.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
Likewise, Paxton valued a 42-acre plot of undeveloped land in Johnson County, south of Fort Worth, at between $15,001 and $50,000 last year.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026
Rather than simply creating a secluded vacation home, DiCaprio set his sights on turning the undeveloped island into an environmentally conscious luxury resort.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
“I get wind of much misplaced criticism, by men as clever even as Burnham, because of impressions from incomplete work and undeveloped compositions,” he wrote.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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