DISCOVERED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does discovered mean? 

• DISCOVERED (adjective)
  The adjective DISCOVERED has 1 sense:

1. discovered or determined by scientific observation

  Familiarity information: DISCOVERED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISCOVERED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Discovered or determined by scientific observation

Synonyms:

ascertained; discovered; observed

Context example:

no explanation for the observed phenomena

Similar:

determined (having been learned or found or determined especially by investigation)

 Context examples 

He had discovered that he loved beauty more than fame, and that what desire he had for fame was largely for Ruth's sake.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

So much is known to the world, but what I am telling you now is what I have myself discovered.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here I discovered the true causes of many great events that have surprised the world; how a whore can govern the back-stairs, the back-stairs a council, and the council a senate.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

They turned and walked through the forest a few steps, when Dorothy discovered something shining in a ray of sunshine that fell between the trees.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

On inquiry, the police have discovered that Mme. Henri Fournaye only returned from a journey to London on Tuesday last, and there is evidence to connect her with the crime at Westminster.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

What would happen to me when these men discovered my presence?

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Before long the searchlight discovered some distance away a schooner with all sails set, apparently the same vessel which had been noticed earlier in the evening.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Miss Mills had received a hasty note from Dora, telling her that all was discovered, and saying.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The camp was suddenly discovered to be alive with skulking furry forms,—starving huskies, four or five score of them, who had scented the camp from some Indian village.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Having found the ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss where he had tossed it.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)