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unfound

unfound

1 6.4
Not discovered after searching
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈfaʊnd/
translation icon : no encontrado
  • With a reputation as one of the most versatile rappers to emerge from Hampton Roads, Craig-O has ignited the local music scene with an unfound intensity.

But many times they go, you know, unfound.

Examples

  • Probes are also used to detect an error, such as an undamped work pallet, which, if left unfound, could ruin every tool, part, and fixture on the machine as it starts up.

    Academic text (2005)
  • It's written in Coptic, but the original text, as yet unfound, was in Greek.

    Blog text (18)
  • The tin city would become a civilization, unfound until now, buried beneath the Amazon River.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • So they packed their bags and moved deeper into Queens or Brooklyn to places yet unfound.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • How could one of the most common historical myths of all time lay unfound and unaddressed in these textbooks for so long?

    Blog text (16)
  • "Only I should hate to think, Commander," my mother continued anxiously, "that we had gone through all that grieving for poor Chip when his body is still lying unfound and alone somewhere out there."

    Fiction book (2001)
  • Or he might sneak as far as he could ahead and hope the goblin turned off into some passage on the other side of the wall, at some branching yet unfound.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • Over the next two days, we leave a few letters around, which, to Marie's great disappointment, are either unread or unfound, or maybe, Marie suggests, just placed in our files.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • Many species of plants remain unfound in this remote region of the rainforest.

  • Despite extensive searching, the treasure remains unfound after all these years.

Synonyms

missing
vsunfound
809 1.0

Not in the place where you expect to find it

is more about being not yet located than being merely absent
undetected
vsunfound
37 4.6

Not found or noticed by others

is about lack of location rather than simply being unnoticed
34 4.7

Missing and cannot be found anywhere

is a general state of not being located, not always total unavailability
undiscovered
vsunfound
23 4.0

Not yet found or known by people

is about being not yet located rather than simply unknown
unrecovered
vsunfound
1 5.8

Not yet found, repaired, or paid back

focuses on current lack of location rather than prior loss and return
untraced
vsunfound
1 6.9

Not found even after people tried to find it

does not require prior search effort, it simply remains unlocated

Antonyms

Found by study or careful observation

Surface Forms

unfound positive

Morphology

unfound = found (transparent) = un + found

The adjective is clearly formed by the productive prefix 'un-' + 'found' (past participle of 'find'), so 'not discovered' is directly derivable.

Etymology

Unfound is made from the prefix un- meaning 'not' and found, the past form of 'find', so it means 'not discovered'.