Marked and Plain

Marked

Marked adjective - Likely to attract attention.

Plain and marked are semantically related in noticeable topic. In some cases you can use "Plain" instead an adjective "Marked".

Nearby Words: mark, marker, markedly, marking

Plain

Plain adjective - Free from all additions or embellishment.

Marked and plain are semantically related in obvious topic. Sometimes you can use "Marked" instead an adjective "Plain".

Nearby Words: plainly, plainness, plaint

Both words in one sentence

  • Claimed by the Supernatural Whether the marked one knows about it or not is usually immaterial to the marker; its purpose is plain and simple, and that's to tell everyone "hands off — this one belongs to me".
  • Just a Machine It doesn't help that the autoresponder has a marked tendency to hit on Jake constantly, nor that he's also just plain kind of a dick.
  • Video Game / Avernum Some valuable items you can even take in plain sight, as long as they're not marked "Not Yours".
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