diff --git a/src/librustc/ty/mod.rs b/src/librustc/ty/mod.rs
index b104bbf466a3..9d563e290de9 100644
--- a/src/librustc/ty/mod.rs
+++ b/src/librustc/ty/mod.rs
@@ -1842,8 +1842,8 @@ pub struct VariantDef {
     pub ctor_kind: CtorKind,
     /// Flags of the variant (e.g. is field list non-exhaustive)?
     flags: VariantFlags,
-    /// Recovered?
-    // FIXME: Needs proper doc. Recovered whom from what?
+    /// Variant is obtained as part of recovering from a syntactic error.
+    /// May be incomplete or bogus.
     pub recovered: bool,
 }