Synonyms of detected

detected 1 of 2

adjective

as in identified

Related Words

• identified
• discovered
• crowded
• bustling
• swarming
• traveled
• busy
• teeming
• thronging
• trod

Dissimilar Words

• undiscovered
• unexplored
• pristine
• untrodden
• virgin
• trackless
• unspoiled
• pathless
• untraversed
• untraveled

detected

2 of 2

verb

past tense of detect

as in found

to come upon after searching, study, or effort

I can detect just a hint of lemon in the soup

Synonyms & Similar Words

• found
• discovered
• learned
• located
• got
• ascertained
• determined
• found out
• tracked (down)
• dug up
• dug out
• ran down
• rooted (out)
• hit (on or upon)
• turned up
• routed (out)
• rummaged
• hunted (down or up)
• dredged (up)
• spotted
• descried
• ferreted (out)
• scouted (up)
• scared up
• sighted
• nosed out
• sought
• espied
• looked for
• searched (for or out)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• missed
• passed over
• overlooked
• lost
• misplaced
• mislaid
• misset

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of detected

Verb

Hugging Face’s security team and its own agents detected and stopped the activity on its infrastructure. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 21 July 2026

As anyone reading this who is hypervigilant at noticing and advocating for the missing women in the room can tell you, with training and conscious effort, the absence of women at work can indeed be detected. — Melissa A. Wheeler, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026

In an unusual twist, two groups working independently detected the cold gas giant a few days apart late last year using different telescopes. — Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2026

Astronomers have detected about 300 such remnants in our galaxy to date. — Charles Q. Choi, Space.com, 21 July 2026

Sweetgreen shares are down 8% after rebounding on Friday by 14% when it was thought that the source of the outbreak had been detected. — Christina Cheddar Berk,davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 20 July 2026

Durand claimed that a Prenuvo scan can detect many diseases based on changes to the inside of the body that can be detected by MRI. — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 20 July 2026

Astronomers have detected a natural sugar found in raspberries in clouds of interstellar dust and gas near the center of the Milky Way galaxy. — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 14 July 2026

Scientists have detected a small black hole hiding inside one of the Milky Way’s massive star clusters, Omega Centauri. — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 14 July 2026