<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>Strikingly noticeable; conspicuous: with marked success.</li><li>Synonyms: prominent, obvious, outstanding, striking.</li><li>Watched as an object of suspicion or vengeance: a marked man.</li><li>Having a mark or marks: beautifully marked birds; to read the marked pages.</li><li>Linguistics. Compare unmarked (def 2).</li><li>(Of a phoneme) characterized by the presence of a phonological feature that serves to distinguish it from an otherwise similar phoneme lacking that feature, as (d), which, in contrast to (t), is characterized by the presence of voicing.</li><li>Characterized by the presence of a marker indicating the grammatical function of a construction, as the plural in English, which, in contrast to the singular, is typically indicated by the presence of the marker -s.</li><li>Specifying an additional element of meaning, in contrast to a semantically related item, as drake in contrast to duck, where drake specifies “male” while duck does not necessarily specify sex.</li><li>Occurring less typically than an alternative form, as the word order in Down he fell in contrast to the more usual order of He fell down.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>