branded

1. 1
   adjective

   Carrying a maker's name or trademark, and sold under a brand rather than as a generic product.

   The supermarket stocks both branded cereals and its own store label.

   Consumers often pay a premium for branded electronics they recognize.

   Similarproprietary, trademarked

   Oppositegeneric, unbranded

2. 2
   adjective

   Bearing a permanent mark made by burning or stamping, often to show ownership or origin.

   The branded hide showed which herd the animal had come from.

   Inspectors checked every branded barrel against the cooperage's records.

   Similarmarked

   Oppositeunmarked, unbranded

3. 3
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of brand.

   The blacksmith branded the barrels with the maker's seal.

   Critics branded the new policy a failure within days.

   Note

   A regular past form: one spelling covers both the simple past and the participle, which follows have in the perfect and be in the passive. Nearly every meaning of the verb is transitive, so passives come naturally: the cattle were branded, she was branded a liar. Placed before a noun, the participle shades into the burned-mark adjective or the trademark adjective.

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