Definition of DEVELOPING

developing

Plural: developings

Noun

  • processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible
  • A process of development.

Verb

  • make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation
  • work out
  • gain through experience
  • come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
  • come into existence; take on form or shape
  • change the use of and make available or usable
  • elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses
  • create by training and teaching
  • be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest
  • grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment
  • become technologically advanced
    • "Many countries in Asia are now developing at a very fast pace"
  • cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development
  • generate gradually
  • grow emotionally or mature
  • make visible by means of chemical solutions
  • superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry
  • move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions
  • move into a strategically more advantageous position
  • elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme
  • happen
  • expand in the form of a series
  • present participle and gerund of develop

Adjective Satellite

  • relating to societies in which capital needed to industrialize is in short supply

Adj

  • In the process of development.
  • Of a country: becoming economically more mature or advanced; becoming industrialized.

Scrabble Score: 17

developing is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
developing is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
developing is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 22

developing is a valid Words With Friends word