unmarked

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English marked English unmarked From un- + marked.

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.”

2. Free from blemishes.
3. Not noticed.
4. Not marked, 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.”

5. Not having been marked, or 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?).”