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Highly-developed   /hˈaɪli-dɪvˈɛləpt/   Listen
adjective
highly-developed  adj.  
1.
Very complex or intricate; used especially of technology.
Synonyms: advanced.
2.
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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"Highly-developed" Quotes from Famous Books



... Wagner is not at all satisfied with pausing where Mozart, Beethoven, and other great composers, left off. He believes that their music can be improved upon. According to his theory, the music of the opera, in the most highly-developed form of the latter, is but an incidental element, the dramatic part being principal. He lately composed a triology—three operas connected as one—with a prologue, the subjects of the dramas being taken from mythology, and forming beautiful fairy tales. To carry to the greatest perfection his ...
— Music and Some Highly Musical People • James M. Trotter
... was somewhat taller than Tom, awkwardly and plainly dressed, but with a highly-developed Byronic turn-down collar, and long black curling locks. He was certainly handsome, as far as the form of his features and brow; and would have been very handsome, but for the bad complexion which at his age so often accompanies a sedentary life, and a melancholic temper. One glance at his face ...
— Two Years Ago, Volume I • Charles Kingsley


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