different between marked vs obvious

English

Etymology 1

mark (“sign, characteristic, visible impression”) +? -ed

Alternative forms

• markèd

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m??k?d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /m??kt/
• (some North American dialects, adjective: clearly evident): IPA^(key): /?m??k?d/, /?m??k?d/

Adjective

marked (comparative more marked, superlative most marked)

1. Having a visible or identifying mark.
   1. (of a playing card) Having a secret mark on the back for cheating.
2. Clearly evident; noticeable; conspicuous.
3. (linguistics, of a word, form, or phoneme) Distinguished by a positive feature.

   e.g. in author and authoress, the latter is marked for its gender by a suffix.

4. Singled out; suspicious; treated with hostility; the object of vengeance.

5. (of a police vehicle) In police livery, as opposed to unmarked.

Usage notes

• This adjectival sense of this word is sometimes written markèd, with a grave accent. This is meant to indicate that the second e is pronounced as /?/, rather than being silent, as in the verb form. This usage is largely restricted to poetry and other works in which it is important that the adjective’s disyllabicity be made explicit.

Synonyms

• (having a visible or identifying mark): See also Thesaurus:marked
• (clearly evident): manifest, noticeable, obtrusive, palpable, patent
• (distinguished by a positive feature):
• (singled out): singled out, targeted
• (in police livery):

Antonyms

• unmarked

Hyponyms

• pockmarked

Translations

Etymology 2

mark (“verb senses”) +? -ed

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m??kt/
• Rhymes: -??(r)kt

Verb

marked

1. simple past tense and past participle of mark

Anagrams

• demark

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse markaðr, marknaðr (“market”), from northern Old French market, from Old French marchiet, from Latin merc?tus (“market”). Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål marked, Swedish marknad, Faroese marknaður, Icelandic markaður.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mark?d/, [?m????ð?]

Noun

marked n (singular definite markedet, plural indefinite markeder)

1. market
2. fair
3. emporium

Declension

Further reading

• “marked” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “marked” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin mercatus, via Old French market and Old Norse markaðr and marknaðr

Noun

marked n (definite singular markedet, indefinite plural marked or markeder, definite plural markeda or markedene)

1. a market

Derived terms

See also

• marknad (Nynorsk)

References

• “marked” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

English

Etymology

16th century, from Latin obvius (“being in the way so as to meet, meeting, easy to access, at hand, ready, obvious”), from ob- (“before”) + via (“way”). In order to avoid an awkward form such as *obvy, the Latin ending -us was maintained in the form -ous (which is otherwise equivalent to Latin -osus).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??b.vi.?s/, (fast speech) /??.vi.?s/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??b.v??s/, /??.v??s/, (fast speech) /??v.j?s/
• Hyphenation: ob?vi?ous

Adjective

obvious (comparative more obvious, superlative most obvious)

1. Easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory.

   • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:obvious.

Antonyms

• unobvious
• non-obvious
• subtle

Derived terms

• obviously
• obviousness

Translations

See also

• clear
• evident
• manifest
• plain

Further reading

• obvious in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• obvious in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.