MEANING
1. Not separated into clearly distinct types, parts, or roles, or having few clear differences between them.
2. Describing cells or tissues that have not developed specialized structures or functions.
Use it for
criticizing treatment of a varied group as a single category; describing roles that have not been separated; warning that a broad category conceals internal differencesDistinguishes failure to separate categories from lack of specialized biological development. Academic functions: Comparison / Contrast.
Words that belong together
- an undifferentiated category
- an undifferentiated mass
- undifferentiated treatment
On the page
The analysis rejects an undifferentiated category of migrant experience.
Treating all institutions as an undifferentiated group conceals differences in legal authority.
The review distinguishes undifferentiated cells from cells with specialized functions.
The term undifferentiated describes a developmental state rather than the absence of all cellular structure.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- undifferentiated
Usage notes
Adjective, usually non-gradable; comparatively or relatively can qualify degree. No ordinary -er/-est forms. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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