developed

Meanings

Verb

• make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation
  • "Her company developed a new kind of building material that withstands all kinds of weather"
  • "They developed a new technique"
• work out
  • "We have developed a new theory of evolution"
• gain through experience
  • "Dave developed leadership qualities in his new position"
• come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
  • "The patient developed abdominal pains"
  • "Well-developed breasts"
• come into existence; take on form or shape
• change the use of and make available or usable
  • "The country developed its natural resources"
• elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses
• create by training and teaching
• be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest
  • "The plot developed slowly"
• grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment
  • "A flower developed on the branch"
  • "The country developed into a mighty superpower"
  • "This situation has developed over a long time"
• become technologically advanced
• cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development
  • "He developed a new kind of apple"
• generate gradually
• grow emotionally or mature
  • "The child developed beautifully in her new kindergarten"
• make visible by means of chemical solutions
• superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry
• move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions
  • "Spassky developed quickly"
• move into a strategically more advantageous position
• elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme
• happen
• expand in the form of a series
• simple past and past participle of develop

Adjective

• being changed over time so as to be e.g. stronger or more complete or more useful
  • "the developed qualities of the Hellenic outlook"
  • "they have very small limbs with only two fully developed toes on each"

Adjective Satellite

• (used of societies) having high industrial development
  • "developed countries"
• (of real estate) made more useful and profitable as by building or laying out roads
  • "condominiums were built on the developed site"

Adj

• wealthy and industrialized; not third-world.
• Mature.
• Containing man-made structures such as roads, sewers, electric lines, buildings, and so on.
• Having useful or necessary infrastructure.
• Advanced, fully formed.
• Processed and fixed; containing a visible negative (or positive for slide film) image

Synonyms

acquire, adult, advanced, arise, big, break, build up, develop, educate, evolve, explicate, first-world, formulate, full-grown, germinate, get, grow, highly-developed, industrialised, make grow, modernise, modernize, originate, prepare, produce, recrudesce, rise, spring up, train, uprise

Antonyms

undeveloped

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