Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - marked

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. A marked change or difference is very obvious and easily noticed. There has been a marked increase in crimes against property... He was a man of austere habits, in marked contrast to his more flamboyant wife... ADJ • markedly America’s current economic downturn is markedly different from previous recessions... ADV: ADV adj, ADV with v 2. If you describe someone as a marked man or woman, you mean that they are in danger from someone who wants to harm or kill them. All he needs to do is make one phone call and I’m a marked man. ADJ: ADJ n