UNDISCOVERED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does undiscovered mean? 

• UNDISCOVERED (adjective)
  The adjective UNDISCOVERED has 2 senses:

1. not discovered

2. not yet discovered

  Familiarity information: UNDISCOVERED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNDISCOVERED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not discovered

Context example:

with earth-based telescopes many stars remain undiscovered

Similar:

undetected (not perceived or discerned)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Not yet discovered

Synonyms:

undiscovered; unexplored

Context example:

undiscovered islands

Similar:

unknown (not known)

 Context examples 

To suppose that a manuscript of many generations back could have remained undiscovered in a room such as that, so modern, so habitable!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

As yet my flight, I was sure, was undiscovered.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A new study led by University of Idaho researchers suggests there could be two tiny, previously undiscovered moonlets orbiting near two of the planet’s rings.

(Uranus May Have Two Undiscovered Moons, NASA)

He was not, as the other traveller seemed to be, a savage inhabitant of some undiscovered island, but a European.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The specimen represents a previously undiscovered species, which the scientists named Xiaophis myanmarensis, or "dawn-snake of Myanmar."

(Cretaceous baby snake fossil found in Myanmar, Wikinews)

An undiscovered planet outside the orbit of Neptune, 10 times the mass of Earth, would affect the orbit of Saturn, not Cassini.

(Saturn Spacecraft Not Affected by Hypothetical Planet 9, NASA)

That first repulsion had been really a fear of her undiscovered self, and the fear had gone to sleep.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"But how," said I, "can it have remained so long undiscovered, when there is a sure index to it if men will but take the trouble to look?"

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

But, until now, we did not know the location of the final, undiscovered process, known as rapid neutron capture, that created the heavier elements in the periodic table.

(First identification of a heavy element born from neutron star collision, ESO)

It was previously not known if brown dwarfs could form from such primordial gas, and the discovery points the way to a larger undiscovered population of extremely pure brown dwarfs from our Galaxy's ancient past.

(Astronomers Identify Purest, Most Massive Brown Dwarf, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)