Skip to content
GREMockTests
GRE vocabulary

manifest

adjectiveHigh-frequency wordMore M words

clear and obvious to the eye or mind

Word origin: From Latin manifestus, caught in the act, plainly visible.

Start a free GRE mock test 39 minutes · free · instant score
In a sentence

Manifest in a sentence

Here are example sentences showing manifest in a sentence.

Her discomfort was manifest in every nervous glance toward the door.

The author's debt to earlier satirists is manifest in nearly every chapter of the novel.

Synonyms
evidentapparentobviouspatent
Antonyms

Quick GRE check

Question 1 of 3

3 questions, about 2 minutes. How would you do on the real test?

Verbal · Text Completion

Although the senator's memoir was marketed as a frank reckoning with his failures, reviewers found it relentlessly blank, dwelling on grievances and recasting every setback as the fault of his adversaries.

Select the word that best completes the sentence.

Usage & nuance

Using “manifest” well

As an adjective, manifest means clear and obvious to the eye or mind, needing no proof. It is the surfaced opposite of latent, which describes what remains hidden.

Common questions

Questions about “manifest”

Manifest (adjective) means clear and obvious to the eye or mind
Here is manifest used in an example sentence: "Her discomfort was manifest in every nervous glance toward the door." Another example: "The author's debt to earlier satirists is manifest in nearly every chapter of the novel."
Common synonyms for manifest include evident, apparent, obvious, patent.
Antonyms of manifest include hidden, obscure, latent.
Manifest clusters with evident, apparent, obvious, and patent. Its antonyms hidden, obscure, and latent make a frequent GRE contrast pair with latent.
Yes. Manifest is a high-frequency GRE word, so it is worth prioritising as you build your vocabulary.

See these words the way the GRE tests them.

Take the free 39-minute GRE Quick Mock Test and meet words like this inside real Text Completion and Sentence Equivalence questions, with a worked solution for every answer.