unmarked

Adjective

unmarked (not comparable)

1. Not bearing identification.
   • an unmarked highway patrol vehicle
   • My mother died when I could not have been more than eight or nine years old, on one of old master's farms in Tuckahoe, in the neighborhood of Hillsborough. Her grave is, as the grave of the dead at sea, unmarked, and without stone or stake.1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 3, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York; Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   anonymous, undercover

2. Free from blemishes.

   Synonyms:

   like new, mint, pristine

3. Not noticed.

   Synonyms:

   overlooked

4. Not closely followed by a defensive player.
   • Bale worked Bozovic again as he was left unmarked in the Montenegro area but could not get enough power on his header from a looping cross.2011 September 2, “Wales 2-1 Montenegro”, in BBC
5. Not having been assigned a score.
   • The teacher sat down to a pile of unmarked work.
6. Not marked; not standing out as unusual, or contrasting, in a given context.
   • The use of that word in that context was unmarked.
   • For instance, from the semantic point of view the words dog and bitch are unmarked and marked for the contrast of sex. The word dog is semantically unmarked (or neutral), since it can be applied to either males or females (That's a lovely dog you've got there: is it a he or a she?).1968, John Lyons, Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 79

   Synonyms:

   neutral