Antonyms of verb dedifferentiate

1 sense of dedifferentiate

Sense 1
dedifferentiate -- (lose specialization in form or function)
       Antonym of differentiate (Sense 4)
      => differentiate -- (become different during development; "cells differentiate")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb dedifferentiate

1 sense of dedifferentiate

Sense 1
dedifferentiate -- (lose specialization in form or function)
       => develop -- (grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment; "A flower developed on the branch"; "The country developed into a mighty superpower"; "The embryo develops into a fetus"; "This situation has developed over a long time")

Antonyms of adj dedifferentiated

1 sense of dedifferentiated

Sense 1
dedifferentiated -- (having experienced or undergone dedifferentiation or the loss of specialization in form or function; "the hebephrenic--the most severely dedifferentiated of all schizophrenic patients")

INDIRECT (VIA undifferentiated) -> differentiated -- (made different (especially in the course of development) or shown to be different; "the differentiated markings of butterflies"; "the regionally differentiated results")

Similarity of adj dedifferentiated

1 sense of dedifferentiated

Sense 1
dedifferentiated -- (having experienced or undergone dedifferentiation or the loss of specialization in form or function; "the hebephrenic--the most severely dedifferentiated of all schizophrenic patients")
       => undifferentiated (vs. differentiated), uniform -- (not differentiated)

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