Synonyms for discovery
dɪˈskʌv ə ridis·cov·e·ry

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1. discovery

   Synonyms:
   certainty, demonstration, evidence, fact, proof

   Antonyms:
   conjecture, guess, hypothesis, scheme, speculation, supposition, surmise, system, theory

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.3 / 3 votes

1. discovery, find, uncoveringnoun

   the act of discovering something

   Synonyms:
   find, uncovering, husking, denudation, breakthrough, baring, stripping

2. discoverynoun

   something that is discovered

   Synonyms:
   uncovering, breakthrough, find

3. discovery, breakthrough, findnoun

   a productive insight

   Synonyms:
   uncovering, breakthrough, find

4. discoverynoun

   (law) compulsory pretrial disclosure of documents relevant to a case; enables one side in a litigation to elicit information from the other side concerning the facts in the case

   Synonyms:
   uncovering, breakthrough, find

Matched Categories

1. • Disclosure
   • Law

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. anagnorisis

   when character makes critical discovery in a play

   oedipus realizes he killed his father and married his mother

   Submitted by JP03 on October 26, 2014  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. discoverynoun

   Synonyms:
   disclosure, revelation, making known

2. discoverynoun

   Synonyms:
   finding, finding out

3. discoverynoun

   Synonyms:
   first sight, first view

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. discoverynoun

   Synonyms:
   ascertainment, detection, unearthing, disclosure

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:5.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "discovery":

   detection, discovered, discoveries, découverte, discovering, discover, finding, uncovering, exploration, detect, found, detecting, breakthrough, detected, mine-detection, discoverable

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1. List of known nicknames for "Discovery":

   Penny McCleery, Shanokee

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How to use discovery in a sentence?

1. Woodward Fischer:

   This discovery from Jared Leadbetter and Hang fills a major intellectual gap in our understanding of Earth's elemental cycles, and adds to the diverse ways in which manganese, an abstruse but common transition metal, has shaped the evolution of life on our planet.

2. Benny Liu:

   Initially we thought we contaminated our samples, or mixed up the two drugs. And so we repeated these experiments over and over again, and got the same exact results, it was a blind stumble onto this discovery.

3. Chris CornellIncredibly:

   It was a long slow slide and then a long slow recovery, but there was self-discovery too.

4. Ayn Rand:

   It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.

5. Charles Krauthammer:

   If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery.