WELL-MARKED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does well-marked mean? 

• WELL-MARKED (adjective)
  The adjective WELL-MARKED has 1 sense:

1. clearly indicated

  Familiarity information: WELL-MARKED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WELL-MARKED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Clearly indicated

Context example:

a well-marked route

Similar:

marked (having or as if having an identifying mark or a mark as specified; often used in combination)

 Context examples 

I could not move swiftly over the rough, broken ground, but as I looked round me in despair I saw a well-marked, hard-beaten path which ran across in front of me.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was the well-marked print of a thumb.

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

He was a man of huge stature, dark-eyed and red-headed, with a peculiar half-humorous, half-defiant expression upon his bold, well-marked features.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It had five well-marked footpads, an indication of long nails, and the whole print might be nearly as large as a dessert-spoon.

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

With his tangle of golden hair, his fierce blue eyes, and his large, well-marked features, he was the most comely man whom Alleyne had ever seen, and yet there was something so sinister and so fell in his expression that child or beast might well have shrunk from him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He instanced a snake, the cast skin of which, deep purple in color, was fifty-one feet in length, and mentioned a white creature, supposed to be mammalian, which gave forth well-marked phosphorescence in the darkness; also a large black moth, the bite of which was supposed by the Indians to be highly poisonous.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His shaven face was as brown as a hazel-nut, tanned and dried by the weather, with harsh, well-marked features, which were not improved by a long white scar which stretched from the corner of his left nostril to the angle of the jaw.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)