manifest
- adjective
- /ˈmænɪfɛst/
- Formal
- The story allows us to feel manifest unreality as well as manifest reality, moment by moment.
- become manifest
- make manifest
- clear and manifest
He's fighting against manifest facts, open facts, right?
- He's fighting against manifest facts, open facts, right?
- Hagel then says this defect in the law must equally be made manifest in the law itself.
- Ralph Aldo Emerson said that God will not have his work be manifest by cowards.
- The contain, you know, containing itself within itself, you might say, is clearly manifest.
- The representation has to be made manifest in a form accessible to everyone, Right, Right.
Examples
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The mentally ill are generally defined in practice, if not in theory, by their manifest behavior.
Academic text (1999) -
For there is nothing hidden… that will not become manifest.
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Three ways of understanding the rights of children are manifest in that controversy.
Academic text (1992) -
Boundaries between nations or between regions are more manifest than those between small communities.
Academic text (1990) -
Indeed, his initial impressions of Ireland would become manifest in what he would observe once on shore.
Academic text (1999) -
Indeed, the manifest purpose of a choice-of-law clause is precisely to avoid such a battle...
Academic text (2017) -
The sacred is manifest in the decomposition of the arenas of work and reason.
Fiction book (2002) -
Stevens was also an advocate of "manifest destiny," the political belief that American territorial expansion was inevitable.
Academic text (1992) -
Occasionally, there appears among us a person whose virtues are so manifest, who so subordinates his own ego to the concerns of others, who lives in such harmony with all the standards of the community that he is revered and loved by everyone.
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The solution to the puzzle became manifest after a few hints were given.
Synonyms
Easy to see or notice
Easy to see or understand
Easy to see or understand
Easy to see, hear, or recognize
Easy to see and notice because it stands out
A very strong feeling or atmosphere that you notice easily
Very clear and easy to recognize
Easily seen or noticed
Very clear and hard to miss
Antonyms
Compounds
A belief that the United States should expand west across the continent and that this is right and will happen
How Obvious
Surface Forms
Etymology
Manifest comes from Latin words meaning 'made visible' and from manus 'hand', like something you can hold or clearly see. That is why manifest means 'clear' or obvious to the eye or mind.