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say it: uhb-ZURVD
observed is an adjective meaning "discovered or determined by scientific observation". It is pronounced /əbˈzɝvd/ — uhb-ZURVD. It carries one recorded sense.
discovered or determined by scientific observation
“variation in the ascertained flux depends on a number of factors”
“the discovered behavior norms”
“discovered differences in achievement”
“no explanation for the observed phenomena”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for observed come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.