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adjective

highly-developed adj.

Very complex or intricate; used especially of technology.

Synonyms: advanced.

Having most of its industrial production in the most modern state; used of countries and societies. Contrasted with undeveloped or developing.

Synonyms: industrialized, advanced, industrial.

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Etymology of 'Highly-developed'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Highly-developed" Quotes from Famous Books

... only by saying "What then do you suppose to be between us?" and he was wonderfully glad a moment later not to have spoken. He would rather seem stupid any day than fatuous, and he drew back as well, with a smothered inward shudder, from the consideration of what women—of highly-developed type in particular—might think of each other. Whatever he had come out for he hadn't come to go into that; so that he absolutely took up nothing his interlocutress had now let drop. Yet, though ...

— The Ambassadors • Henry James

... the second group of the American monkeys. These have also prehensile tails; but the power is not so highly-developed in them as in the Sapajous, nor are their tails naked. Moreover, the bodies of the Sajous are more robust, and their limbs of ...

— Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found - A Book of Zoology for Boys • Mayne Reid

Words linked to "Highly-developed" : industrial