MARKED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does marked mean? 

• MARKED (adjective)
  The adjective MARKED has 3 senses:

1. strongly marked; easily noticeable

2. singled out for notice or especially for a dire fate

3. having or as if having an identifying mark or a mark as specified; often used in combination

  Familiarity information: MARKED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARKED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Strongly marked; easily noticeable

Synonyms:

marked; pronounced

Context example:

a pronounced flavor of cinnamon

Similar:

noticeable (capable or worthy of being noticed)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Singled out for notice or especially for a dire fate

Context example:

a marked man

Similar:

conspicuous (obvious to the eye or mind)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Having or as if having an identifying mark or a mark as specified; often used in combination

Context example:

well-marked roads

Similar:

asterisked; starred (marked with an asterisk)

barred (marked with stripes or bands)

scarred (deeply affected or marked by mental or physical pain or injury)

well-marked (clearly indicated)

masked (having markings suggestive of a mask)

Antonym:

unmarked (not having an identifying mark)

 Context examples 

This rare inflammatory bone condition is marked by pain and joint swelling, and can cause slow growth and permanent bone deformity.

(Diet Affects Autoinflammatory Disease Via Gut Microbes, NIH)

Both the meditation and music groups showed marked and significant improvements in subjective memory function and objective cognitive performance at 3 months.

(Meditation, Music May Help Reverse Early Memory Loss in Adults, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

You may have observed that some of them were marked with ticks, and the others—the great majority—were not.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was clear now that the ape-men had in some way marked us down, and that we were watched on every side.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An acquired non-neoplastic disorder characterized by marked reduction or absence of megakaryocytes and thrombocytopenia.

(Non-Congenital Amegakaryocytosis, NCI Thesaurus)

Non-Hodgkin lymphomas can occur at any age and are often marked by lymph nodes that are larger than normal, fever, and weight loss.

(non-Hodgkin lymphoma, NCI Dictionary)

The team found marked differences in a cluster of genes that code for proteins that help process dietary fatty acids.

(Genetic Adaptations to Diet and Climate, NIH)

The indications here, however, are neither very marked nor very important.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He entered on the path he had marked for himself; he pursues it still.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It is usually marked by an exchange of parts of chromosomes 15 and 17.

(Acute promyelocytic leukemia, NCI Dictionary)