Marked vs Exceptional - What's the difference?
marked | exceptional | Synonyms |
Having a visible or identifying mark.
# Of a playing card: having a secret mark on the back for cheating.
Clearly evident; noticeable; conspicuous.
(linguistics) Of a word, form, or phoneme: distinguished by a positive feature.
singled out; suspicious; treated with hostility; the object of vengeance.
(mark)
Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare.
Better than the average; superior due to rarity.
Corresponding to something of lower dimension under a birational correspondence.
Marked is a synonym of exceptional.
As adjectives the difference between marked and exceptional
is that marked is while exceptional is forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare.marked
English
Etymology 1
From (mark) (noun)Alternative forms
*Adjective
(en adjective)- The eighth century BC saw a marked increase in the general wealth of Cyprus.
- e.g. in author'' and ''authoress , the latter is marked for its gender by a suffix.
- A marked man.
Usage notes
* This adjectival sense of this word is sometimes written , 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.Etymology 2
See (mark) (verb)Verb
(head)Anagrams
* English heteronyms ----exceptional
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- What an exceptional flower!
- The quality of the beer was exceptional.
- an exceptional''' curve; an '''exceptional divisor