Bookmarked

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. set aside for future access or quick reference purposes
2. Identified or saved in a way that allows quick access in the future
3. Noted specially to return to at a later time without difficulty

Etymology: Before "bookmark" meant a strip placed between the pages of a book, the English word for a bookmark was "æstel," borrowed into Old English from Old Irish "astal," itself from Latin "hastula," meaning "little spear" or "splint." That older word was pushed aside, and the replacement was built from two plain parts: "book" and "mark," the latter meaning a sign or token. The compound survives in Middle English, though only in the bare form "merk," which suggests the full compound was rarely written down in that period. "Bookmarked" is the past tense and past participle of "bookmark," so the verb follows the noun. The sense "saved for later," used of a web page or an item set aside to return to, extends the original physical marker: a reader who places a strip in a book is noting where to resume. The same logic carries over to digital pages and saved links, and that is how the term came to describe anything flagged for future attention.

Synonyms: saved, noted, highlighted, registered, tagged

Antonyms: unmarked, ignored, overlooked, disregarded, forgotten