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undiscovered

undiscovered adjective: that has not been discovered; unknown, unexplored. Also the simple past and past participle of undiscover.

Adjective

undiscovered (not comparable)

  1. That has not been discovered; unknown, unexplored.
    • ⁠But thou and I have shaken hands,
      ⁠Till growing winters lay me low;
      ⁠My paths are in the fields I know,
      And thine in undiscover’d lands.1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXXIX”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 61

Also used as

undiscovered is also the simple past and past participle of undiscover.

undiscovered meaning in Bengali and Odia

undiscovered in Bengali

অনাবিষ্কৃত

undiscovered in Odia

ଅନାବିଷ୍କୃତ

Examples of undiscovered in a sentence

  • In fact, as it turned out, Sandy Island had been undiscovered more than once already.
  • It has been recorded that 34 wrecked vessels now lie, mostly undiscovered and undived, in the bay.
  • Many enthusiasts believe that Bigfoot is not some sort of undiscovered hominid, but rather a mystical being that moves between dimensions.

All 11 example sentences with undiscovered

Origin of undiscovered

From un- + discovered.

From undiscover + -ed.

Words formed from undiscovered

Questions about undiscovered

What does undiscovered mean?
Undiscovered means that has not been discovered; unknown, unexplored.
What is undiscovered in Bengali?
Undiscovered in Bengali is অনাবিষ্কৃত. See Undiscovered meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is undiscovered?
Undiscovered is an adjective.

Words near undiscovered in the dictionary

  1. undiscover
  2. undiscoverability
  3. undiscoverable
  4. undiscoverableness
  5. undiscoverably
  6. undiscovered
  7. undiscoveredness
  8. undiscoveries
  9. undiscovering
  10. undiscovers
  11. undiscovery

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Adapted from Wiktionary: undiscovered (page history and authors); undiscovered (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); undiscovered (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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