remarked

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of remark.

   The critic remarked that the novel lost momentum halfway through.

   Several visitors remarked on the museum's striking new entrance.

   Note

   One spelling does double duty. It is the simple past (she remarked) and the participle after have or in the passive (it has often been remarked). The construction matters more than the tense: remarked that introduces what was said, while remarked on names the thing commented upon. The same letters can also spell re-marked, which means marked again and has nothing to do with comment.

2. 2
   adjective

   Standing out clearly enough to be readily noticed.

   A remarked silence settled over the courtroom as the verdict was read.

   Seen from the air, the new highway cut a remarked gray scar across the valley floor.

   Similarmarked, noticeable, conspicuous, striking, pronounced

   Oppositeinconspicuous

   Note

   An adjective that keeps alive the obsolete verb meaning "to mark out, to make notable": what is remarked has been singled out, not talked about. Read a remarked silence as a conspicuous one, not one people commented on. Unlike the past-tense form, it compares with more and most.

   Her absence was all the more remarked for her usual punctuality.

   It was the most remarked feature of the new design.

3. 3
   adjective

   Of an etching or engraving, carrying a remarque: a small identifying sketch in the plate margin.

   Like a limited-edition record that includes a hand-drawn sketch unique to that copy.

   The gallery listed a remarked proof, valued for the small drawing in its margin.

   Each remarked impression carries a sketch the artist added by hand.

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