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/hˈaɪli-dɪvˈɛləpt/ Listen

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

... outside the body and penetrates physical objects, through whose aid the nerve-power somehow operates to produce sounds and motions of bodies; that this nerve-power may act unconsciously to the person who possesses it in even a highly-developed state; that its action may be controlled by the mind, acting either consciously or unconsciously; that old and long-forgotten stores of the memory may take part in this action; and that other minds ...

— Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 • Various

... that time to our own day, man's acquisitive tendency has so expanded, that if we were capable of an unbiased opinion it might be said to be a form of megalomania gripping the entire white race, where highly-developed commerce and industry are found ...

— Crime: Its Cause and Treatment • Clarence Darrow

... porter discussed sub rosa and free of expense to such as stood in need of sustenance; and indeed a good many seemed to stand in need of it. Small wonder, when the mammas were so forcibly reminded by the highly-developed British baby that, in Byron's own words, "our life ...

— Mystic London: - or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis • Charles Maurice Davies