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unmarked

adjectiveB2Common in everyday speech and writing · #7,213 of 15,258neutral

Unmarked means carrying no sign to identify it, or left undamaged. An unmarked car, an unmarked grave, unmarked bodywork.

An unmarked police car is the standard phrase and the whole point of it. An unmarked grave is one with no stone, usually because nobody could pay for one. Of a surface, unmarked simply means without a scratch.

Definitions of unmarked

  1. 1adjectiveunmarkedCarrying no sign to identify it, or left undamaged.B2

    “Amazingly, the vase fell off the shelf and landed unmarked on the carpet.”

unmarked is a quality.

Where it comes from

From un- + marked.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

unmarked in the wild

  • An unmarked grave is one that lacks a marker, headstone, or nameplate indicating that a body is buried there.

    Unmarked grave

  • The summit can be reached by unmarked hiking trails that cross the entire Dix Range, forming a loop.

    South Dix

  • At the brook, an unmarked trail branches east, following the brook to the base of a large slide on the western face of Macomb Mountain.

    South Dix

  • The unmarked Dix Range Crest Path continues from the summit to South Dix and the other peaks in the Dix Range.

    Macomb Mountain

  • The unmarked trail continues up the mountain for 0.5 miles.

    Table Top Mountain (New York)

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.