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mark
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of MARK
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a person or thing that is made fun of <in the wake of the sex scandal, the governor became the favorite mark of late-night comedians>
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a person or thing that is the object of abuse, criticism, or ridicule <the child's small stature and offbeat personality made her an easy mark for bullies>
Related Words laughingstock, mockery, pilgarlic; lightning rod; fall guy, goat, scapegoat, whipping boy
Near Antonyms gossip, gossiper, talebearer, tattler, tattletale, troublemaker; defamer, libeler, libelist, traducer; baiter, heckler, needler, ribber, taunter, tease, teaser, tormentor (also tormenter), torturer; derider, insulter, mocker, ridiculer, scoffer, scorner; caricaturist, lampooner, parodist, satirist
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something set up as an example against which others of the same type are compared <lately his playing hasn't been up to the mark expected of a concert pianist>
Synonyms bar, barometer, benchmark, criterion, gold standard, grade, mark, measure, metric, par, touchstone, yardstick
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something that one hopes or intends to accomplish <set marks for expected daily output>
Synonyms aim, ambition, aspiration, bourne (also bourn), design, dream, end, idea, ideal, intent, intention, mark, meaning, object, objective, plan, point, pretension, purpose, target, thing
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something that sets apart an individual from others of the same kind <a sensitive expression that is the mark of a poet>
Synonyms affection, attribute, attribution, character, criterion, diagnostic, differentia, feature, fingerprint, hallmark, mark, marker, note, particularity, peculiarity, point, property, quality, specific, stamp, touch, trait
Related Words badge, indication, sign; emblem, symbol, token; charm, grace; excellence, merit, virtue; eccentricity, idiosyncrasy, oddity, quirk; individuality, singularity, uniqueness
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something that spoils the appearance or completeness of a thing <a small mark where the car had scraped a wall>
Synonyms blight, blotch, defect, deformity, disfigurement, excrescence, excrescency, fault, flaw, imperfection, mar, mark, pockmark, scar
Related Words abnormality, distortion, irregularity, malformation, misshape; bug, glitch, kink; blot, blur, spot, stain, taint; damage, defacement, impairment, injury; failing, weakness
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the power to bring about a result on another <a person of some mark in the field of evolutionary biology>
Related Words authority, clout, prestige, pull, weight; command, domination, dominion, mastery; consequence, importance, significance; sovereignty (also sovranty), supremacy
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