Meanings
undiscovered1
adjectiveundiscovered (not comparable)
- not comparableThat 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
undiscovered2
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of undiscover
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivenot discovered
Similar
adjectivenot yet discovered
Similar
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
undiscovered · adjective
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishdiscovered
- Englishundiscovered
From un- + discovered.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Danish uopdaget
- uopdagetthat has not been discovered
Greek ανεύρετος, άγνωστος
- ανεύρετος (anévretos)that has not been discovered
- άγνωστος (ágnostos)that has not been discovered
- ανακάλυπτος (anakályptos)that has not been discovered
- ανεξερεύνητος (anexerévnitos)that has not been discovered
Latin irrepertus, indēprensus
- irrepertusthat has not been discovered
- indēprensusthat has not been discovered
Cite this entry
APA
undiscovered. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/undiscovered
MLA
“undiscovered.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/undiscovered. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “undiscovered,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/undiscovered.
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