Meanings
- not comparableNot bearing identification.
an unmarked highway patrol vehicle
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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.
1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 3, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York; Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLCThe “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
2015, Shane R. Reeves, David Wallace, “The Combatant Status of the “Little Green Men” and Other Participants in the Ukraine Conflict”, in International Law Studies, US Naval War College, volume 91, number 361, Stockton Center for the Study of International Law, archived from the original on 27 May 2022, page 393Synonyms: anonymous, undercover
- not comparablehobbiesNot closely followed by a defensive player.
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.
2011 September 2, “Wales 2-1 Montenegro”, in BBC - not comparableNot having been assigned a score.
The teacher sat down to a pile of unmarked work.
- not comparablehuman sciencesNot marked; not standing out as unusual, or contrasting, in a given context.
The use of that word in that context was unmarked.
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For instance, from the semantic point of view the words dog and bitch are unmarked and marked for the contrast of sex. The word dog is semantically unmarked (or neutral), since it can be applied to either males or females (That's a lovely dog you've got there: is it a he or a she?).
1968, John Lyons, Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 79Synonyms: neutral
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveNot bearing identification.
adjectiveNot noticed.
adjectiveNot marked; not standing out as unusual, or contrasting, in a given context.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivenot taken into account
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishmarked
- Englishunmarked
Translations
Bulgarian неотбелязан
- неотбелязан (neotbeljazan)not bearing identification
Chinese Mandarin 無標記 /无标记
- 無標記 /无标记 (wúbiāojì)linguistics: not standing out
Finnish merkitsemätön, tunnukseton
- merkitsemätönnot bearing identification
- tunnuksetonnot bearing identification
- merkkaamatonnot bearing identification
German unmarkiert
- unmarkiertlinguistics: not standing out
Greek αμαρκάριστος, αμαρκάριστος
- αμαρκάριστος (amarkáristos)not bearing identification
- αμαρκάριστος (amarkáristos)sport: not marked
Italian smarcato, smarcato
- smarcatonot bearing identification
- smarcatosport: not marked
Polish nieoznakowany
- nieoznakowanynot bearing identification
Swedish omarkerad
- omarkeradsport: not marked
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with unmarked
All rhymes →Cite this entry
unmarked. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unmarked
“unmarked.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unmarked. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unmarked,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unmarked.
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