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developing

verbadjectivenouncommon in dialogue

  • //dɪˈvɛl.ə.pɪŋ//

In the process of development.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of developpresent participle and gerund of develop

adjective

  1. 1

    In the process of development.

    a developing foetus

  2. 2

    Of a country: becoming economically more mature or advanced; becoming industrialized.

noun

  1. 1

    A process of development.

    In the developings of an inscrutable Providence, the kingdoms of the earth have become embroiled, and who can say where the complication will terminate?

Forms

plural
developings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).