unmarked
/ənmˈɑɹkt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.24 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not bearing identification.
adj
Not noticed.
adj
Not closely followed by a defensive player.
adj
Not marked; not standing out as unusual, or contrasting, in a given context.
Example Sentences
- "an unmarked highway patrol vehicle"
- "My mother died when I could not have been more than eight or nine years old, on one of old master's farms in Tuckahoe, in the neighborhood of Hillsborough. Her grave is, as the grave of the dead at sea, unmarked, and without stone or stake."
- "The “little green men”—faces covered, wearing unmarked olive uniforms, speaking Russian and using Russian weapons—have played a significant role in both the occupation of Crimea and the civil war in eastern Ukraine.¹⁹⁶"
- "Bale worked Bozovic again as he was left unmarked in the Montenegro area but could not get enough power on his header from a looping cross."
- "The teacher sat down to a pile of unmarked work."
- "The use of that word in that context was unmarked."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English marked English unmarked From un- + marked.