markedly

adv
/ˈmɑː.kɪd.li/UK/ˈmɑɹ.kɪd.li/US

Etymology

From marked + -ly.

  1. derived from *mórǵs
  2. derived from *markō
  3. derived from *marku
  4. derived from mearc
  5. derived from mark
  6. formed as marked — “mark + -ed
  7. formed as markedly — “marked + -ly

Definitions

  1. In a marked manner

    In a marked manner; distinctly, noticeably, conspicuously.

    • Being markedly different as a teenager can get you taunted; as an adult it can make you famous.
    • Nearer the coast, the land becomes markedly more marshy, with long, winding channels striking inland from the sea, making access to some of the waterside villages rather difficult.
    • Developments were markedly different in the Soviet zone, but ultimately ended in perhaps an even grimmer dead end: that of SED leader Walter Ulbricht’s thoroughly Stalinized German Democratic Republic (GDR).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at markedly. 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.

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A definitional loop anchored at markedly. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at markedly

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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