marked
[ mahrkt ]
/ mɑrkt /
adjective
strikingly noticeable; conspicuous: with marked success.
watched as an object of suspicion or vengeance: a marked man.
having a mark or marks: beautifully marked birds; to read the marked pages.
Linguistics.
- (of a phoneme) characterized by the presence of a phonological feature that serves to distinguish it from an otherwise similar phoneme lacking that feature, as (d), which, in contrast to (t), is characterized by the presence of voicing.
- characterized by the presence of a marker indicating the grammatical function of a construction, as the plural in English, which, in contrast to the singular, is typically indicated by the presence of the marker -s.
- specifying an additional element of meaning, in contrast to a semantically related item, as drake in contrast to duck, where drake specifies “male” while duck does not necessarily specify sex.
- occurring less typically than an alternative form, as the word order in Down he fell in contrast to the more usual order of He fell down.Compare unmarked(def 2).
SYNONYMS FOR marked
OTHER WORDS FROM marked
mark·ed·ly [mahr-kid-lee] /ˈmɑr kɪd li/, adverb mark·ed·ness, noun half-marked, adjective well-marked, adjectiveWords nearby marked
mark-to-market,
mark-up,
marka,
markan,
markdown,
marked,
marked man, a,
marker,
marker trait,
market,
market abuse
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British Dictionary definitions for markedly
marked
/ (mɑːkt) /
adjective
obvious, evident, or noticeable
singled out, esp for punishment, killing, etc
a marked man
linguistics
distinguished by a specific feature, as in phonology. For example, of the two phonemes /t/ and /d/, the /d/ is marked because it exhibits the feature of voice