Word Meanings - LATENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not visible or apparent; hidden; springs of action. The evils latent in the most promising contrivances are provided for as they arise. Burke. Latent buds , buds which remain undeveloped or dormant for a long time, but may at length grow. Latent

Additional info about word: LATENT

Not visible or apparent; hidden; springs of action. The evils latent in the most promising contrivances are provided for as they arise. Burke. Latent buds , buds which remain undeveloped or dormant for a long time, but may at length grow. Latent heat , that quantity of heat which disappears or becomes concealed in a body while producing some change in it other than rise of temperature, as fusion, evaporation, or expansion, the quantity being constant for each particular body and for each species of change. -- Latent period. The regular time in which a disease is supposed to be existing without manifesting itself. One of the phases in a simple muscular contraction, in which invisible preparatory changes are taking place in the nerve and muscle. One of those periods or resting stages in the development of the ovum, in which development is arrested prior to renewed activity.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LATENT)

• Dormant
• Sleeping
• slumbering
• latent
• undeveloped
• quiescent
• inert
• Elliptical
• Suggestive
• pregnant
• significant
• allusive
• subauditive
• Occult
• Latent
• hidden
• unrevealed
• mysterious
• secret
• dark
• unknown
• Secret
• Hidden
• concealed
• secluded
• retired
• unseen
• private
• obscure
• recondite
• covert
• clandestine
• privy
• underdosed

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of LATENT)

• Reveal
• make known
• discover

Related words: (words related to LATENT)

• OCCULTISM
  A certain Oriental system of theosophy. A. P. Sinnett.
• OCCULT
  Hidden from the eye or the understanding; inviable; secret; concealed; unknown. It is of an occult kind, and is so insensible in its advances as to escape observation. I. Taylor. Occult line , a line drawn as a part of the construction of a figure
• OBSCURENESS
  Obscurity. Bp. Hall.
• OBSCURER
  One who, or that which, obscures.
• SECRETE
  To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion. Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not known. Carpenter. Syn. -- To conceal; hide. See
• CONCEALED
  Hidden; kept from sight; secreted. -- Con*ceal"ed*ly (, adv. -- Con*ceal"ed*ness, n. Concealed weapons , dangerous weapons so carried on the person as to be knowingly or willfully concealed from sight, -- a practice forbidden by statute.
• SLUMBERY
  Sleepy. Chaucer.
• PREGNANT
  1. Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring forth. 2. Heavy with important contents, significance, or issue; full of consequence or results; weighty; as, pregnant replies.
• SLEEPWALKER
  One who walks in his sleep; a somnambulist.
• PRIVATEERING
  Cruising in a privateer.
• OCCULTED
  Concealed by the intervention of some other heavenly body, as a star by the moon. (more info) 1. Hidden; secret. Shak.
• SECRETARY
  secretari, Sp. & Pg. secretario, It. secretario, segretario) LL. secretarius, originally, a confidant, one intrusted with secrets, 1. One who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets. 2. A person employed to write orders, letters, dispatches, public
• DISCOVERTURE
  A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery.
• INERTIA
  That property of matter by which it tends when at rest to remain so, and when in motion to continue in motion, and in the same straight line or direction, unless acted on by some external force; - - sometimes called vis inertiæ. 2. Inertness;
• SECRET
  segreto), fr. L. secretus, p.p. of secrernere to put apart, to 1. Hidden; concealed; as, secret treasure; secret plans; a secret vow. Shak. The secret things belong unto the Lord our God; but those things which are revealed belong unto us. Deut.
• ELLIPTICALLY
  1. In the form of an ellipse. 2. With a part omitted; as, elliptically expressed.
• DISCOVERABLE
  Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry.
• SLEEP-AT-NOON
  A plant which closes its flowers at midday; a kind of goat's beard. Dr. Prior.
• SLUMBERER
  One who slumbers; a sleeper.
• SLEEPLESS
  1. Having no sleep; wakeful. 2. Having no rest; perpetually agitated. "Biscay's sleepless bay." Byron. -- Sleep"less*ly, adv. -- Sleep"less*ness, n.
• UNDERSECRETARY
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• SUBOBSCURELY
  Somewhat obscurely or darkly. Donne.
• INCONCEALABLE
  Not concealable. "Inconcealable imperfections." Sir T. Browne.
• INSIGNIFICANT
  1. Not significant; void of signification, sense, or import; meaningless; as, insignificant words. 2. Having no weight or effect; answering no purpose; unimportant; valueless; futile. Laws must be insignificant without the sanction of rewards and
• INSIGNIFICANTLY
  without significance, importance, or effect; to no purpose. "Anger insignificantly fierce." Cowper.
• ACQUIESCENTLY
  In an acquiescent manner.