undiscovered
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- adjective
- /ˌʌndɪsˈkʌvərd/
- A vast, undiscovered wilderness filled with fantastic creatures.
- undiscovered resources
- undiscovered oil
- undiscovered gas
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Watch on YouTubeI feel like Myanmar is so undiscovered and untouched by tourists.
- I feel like Myanmar is so undiscovered and untouched by tourists.
- All right, this is an undiscovered field.
- It's not boring, it's not dry, and most of it is undiscovered.
- First you start as the undiscovered band and the first people that find you, they love you like no other.
- Do you spend an inordinate amount of time listening to this person tell you how great, yet undiscovered they are?
- But there's just, there's just so much undiscovered.
Examples
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The body lay undiscovered for more than a week.
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"It's for a series of articles I'm doing for Traveler on undiscovered destinations in Mexico," Bess explained.
Fiction book (1998) -
First you start as the undiscovered band and the first people that find you, they love you like no other.
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Her body lay there undiscovered for a month.
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The greatest undiscovered treasure of all time.
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Only one man can be the explorer of an undiscovered region, and I want to be that man!
Fiction book (1997) -
Psychiatry is an effort to probe into the dark, undiscovered world of the mind.
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Their work revealed previously undiscovered, broad-scale, and consistent changes in the distributions of many species.
Academic text (2001) -
I feel like Myanmar is so undiscovered and untouched by tourists.
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In the depths of the cave, archaeologists believe there may be undiscovered artifacts waiting to be found.
Synonyms
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Not known or named, often with no name given
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Not found or noticed by others
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A place not yet explored or mapped
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Not yet found or studied
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Not discovered after searching
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Morphology
undiscovered = discovered (transparent) = un + discover + ed
A standard negation prefix 'un-' added to the adjectival past participle 'discovered', giving a directly derived meaning 'not found'.
Etymology
Undiscovered is un- 'not' plus discover, a word that once meant 'to take the cover away', like the simple word cover. So something undiscovered is still 'covered' or hidden and has not yet been found.