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discover has 38 distinct synonyms spread across 7 of its 8 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
“I learned that she has two grown-up children”
make a discovery
“She found that he had lied to her”
find unexpectedly
“the archeologists chanced upon an old tomb”
see for the first time; make a discovery
“Who discovered the North Pole?”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for discover come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.