Marked vs Particular - What's the difference?
marked | particular | 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)
(obsolete) Pertaining only to a part of something; partial.
Specific; discrete; concrete.
* Shakespeare
Specialised; characteristic of a specific person or thing.
* Francis Bacon
(obsolete) Known only to an individual person or group; confidential.
* 1623 , William Shakespeare, King Lear , V.1:
Distinguished in some way; special (often in negative constructions).
(comparable) Of a person, concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; precise; fastidious.
Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise.
(legal) Containing a part only; limited.
(legal) Holding a particular estate.
(logic) Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject.
A small individual part of something larger; a detail, a point.
(obsolete) A person's own individual case.
*, II.16:
*:Since philosophy could never find any way for tranquillity that might be generally good, let every man in his particular seeke for it.
* Whole Duty of Man
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Marked is a synonym of particular.
As adjectives the difference between marked and particular
is that marked is while particular is (obsolete) pertaining only to a part of something; partial.As a noun particular is
a small individual part of something larger; a detail, a point.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 ----particular
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Alternative forms
* perticular (obsolete)Adjective
(-)- I couldn't find the particular model you asked for, but I hope this one will do.
- We knew it was named after John Smith, but nobody knows which particular John Smith.
- [Make] each particular hair to stand an end, / Like quills upon the fretful porpentine.
- I don't appreciate your particular brand of cynicism.
- wheresoever one plant draweth such a particular juice out of the earth
- or these domesticke and particular broiles, Are not the question heere.
- My five favorite places are, in no particular order, New York, Chicago, Paris, San Francisco and London.
- I didn't have any particular interest in the book.
- He brought no particular news.
- She was the particular belle of the party.
- He is very particular about his food and if it isn't cooked to perfection he will send it back.
- a full and particular account of an accident
- a particular estate, or one precedent to an estate in remainder
- a particular tenant
- (Blackstone)
- a particular proposition, opposed to "universal", e.g. (particular affirmative) "Some men are wise"; (particular negative) "Some men are not wise".
Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* generalDerived terms
* antiparticularism * antiparticularist * in particular * particular average * particular Church * particular integral * particularism * particularize * particularly * particularityExternal links
*Noun
(en noun)- temporal blessings, whether such as concern the publicor such as concern our particular