UNDERDEVELOP

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Process (a film or photographic plate) less than the required time or in an ineffective solution or at an insufficiently high temperature

Example:

These photos are underdeveloped

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "underdevelop" is one way to...):

develop (make visible by means of chemical solutions)

Domain category:

photography; picture taking (the act of taking and printing photographs)

photography (the process of producing images of objects on photosensitive surfaces)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

underdevelopment ((photography) inadequate processing of film resulting in inadequate contrast)