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UNMARKED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unmarked mean?
• UNMARKED (adjective)
The adjective UNMARKED has 2 senses:
1. not having an identifying mark
2. not taken into account
Familiarity information: UNMARKED used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not having an identifying mark
Context example:
an unmarked police car
Similar:
unasterisked; unstarred (not marked with an asterisk)
Antonym:
marked (having or as if having an identifying mark or a mark as specified; often used in combination)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Not taken into account
Synonyms:
overlooked; unmarked; unnoted
Context example:
his retirement was not allowed to go unmarked
Similar:
unnoticed (not noticed)
Context examples
The evening passed quietly, unmarked by anything extraordinary.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
His manners, however, must have been unmarked, wavering, dubious, or she could not have been so misled.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The day was unmarked therefore by anything to interest her imagination beyond the sight of a very elegant monument to the memory of Mrs. Tilney, which immediately fronted the family pew.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
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