Developing
Developing adjective - Relating to societies in which capital needed to industrialize is in short supply.
Unfinished and developing are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Unfinished" instead an adjective "Developing".
Unfinished
Unfinished adjective - Not brought to the desired final state.
Developing and unfinished are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Developing" instead an adjective "Unfinished".
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On AlternateHistory.com, the (sadly unfinished) story Lysergacide has an alternate version of the hippie culture, known as the "dizzies", developing in The Roaring Twenties as a result of LSD being discovered decades earlier.
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Unfinished, Untested, Used Anyway: Also in "Rip van George", George's time leap is caused by a "hypervine" he uses to save an animal despite Ape's warnings that it's still a developing invention.
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Developing & Unfinished. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/developing/unfinished>.
Unfinished or Developing. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/developing/unfinished.
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