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undiscovered

adjective
un·​dis·​cov·​ered | \ ˌən-di-ˈskə-vərd How to pronounce undiscovered (audio) \

Definition of undiscovered

: not found or found out : not discovered an undiscovered island as yet undiscovered talents undiscovered motives 
 detected the presence of a hitherto undiscovered element.— Paul Strathern

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Yet only 10 percent of the world’s waters have been mapped with sonar, and scientists estimate up to two-thirds of marine life remains undiscovered. National Geographic, "Scientists tag deep-sea shark hundreds of feet underwater—a first," 5 Sep. 2019 Retro gaming collectors will surely want to figure out how the heck this NWC cart went undiscovered for so long—and whether this offers hope for more copies hiding in the wild. Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica, "$13,000 NES cartridge found at the bottom of a Safeway sack," 8 Aug. 2019 Russia wants to stake its claim in the region that is believed to hold up to one-fourth of the Earth’s undiscovered oil and gas. David Rising, BostonGlobe.com, "World powers increasingly see icy Arctic as a hot property," 22 Aug. 2019 Some sections of the miles-long catacombs have been rarely explored, and experts believe more remain undiscovered. Meghan Miner Murray, National Geographic, "9 of Europe’s underground marvels," 2 Aug. 2019 The species has remained undiscovered until now, scientists believe, due to the remote nature of its dimly lit home reef which is below recreational diving limits. Yomi Kazeem, Quartz Africa, "A newly discovered fish in the “Wakanda” of African reefs has been named in honor of Black Panther," 12 July 2019 Currently, many physicists are excited about a more substantial form of black-hole atmosphere, which depends on the existence of undiscovered particles that are very light but not massless. Frank Wilczek, WSJ, "Black Holes May Have ‘Hair’ That We Can See," 3 Jan. 2019 Scientists then measure the position of the proton collisions to analyze what's happening and find more undiscovered particles. Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, "Watch the Large Hadron Collider Get a Tune Up," 2 Mar. 2017 For decades, the most popular explanation for such phenomena was that dark matter is made of as-yet undiscovered weakly interacting massive particles, known as WIMPs. Quanta Magazine, "In the Deep, a Drive to Find Dark Matter," 20 Dec. 2016

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First Known Use of undiscovered

1555, in the meaning defined above

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undiscovered

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English Language Learners Definition of undiscovered

: not having been found or noticed : not discovered

undiscovered

adjective
un·​dis·​cov·​ered | \ ˌən-di-ˈskəv-ərd\

Kids Definition of undiscovered

: not discovered an undiscovered island

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