marked
adjEtymology
From mark (“sign, characteristic, visible impression”) + -ed. Less common disyllabic pronunciation (/ˈmɑː.kɪd/) is likely an analogy derived from markedness (explaining its restriction to sense 2).
Definitions
Having a visible or identifying mark.
Clearly evident
Clearly evident; noticeable; conspicuous.
- The eighth century BC saw a marked increase in the general wealth of Cyprus.
- In ancient times, the Romans imported truffles, credited with marked aphrodisiac virtue, from Libya as well as Greece.
- The drop in merchandise and mineral receipts again reflects the fall in steel output, most marked in the North-East; […].
Distinguished by a positive feature.
- "Young" is the marked element of the old/young pair, since the usual way of asking someone's age is "How old are you?".
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Singled out
Singled out; suspicious; treated with hostility; the object of vengeance.
- A marked man.
In police livery, as opposed to unmarked. (of a police vehicle)
simple past and past participle of mark
The neighborhood
- synonymdistinct
- synonymmarked
- synonympatterned
- antonymunmarked
- antonymplain
- antonymspotless
- neighborquestion-marked
- neighborpockmarked
- neighborSpock-marked
- neighbordiscolored
- neighborvariegated
- neighborbanded
- neighborcrisscross
- neighborlineated
- neighborplashy
- neighborringed
- neighborspeckled
- neighborspotted
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at marked. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at marked. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at marked
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA