Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: latent
IPA transcription: [l'eɪtənt]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: latent
    Meaning: potentially existing but not presently evident or realized; "a latent fingerprint"; "latent talent"
  • Synonyms: latent
    Meaning: (pathology) not presently active; "latent infection"; "latent diabetes"
Usage examples
  • Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone
  • The manifest and latent dreams are merged.
  • Accordingly he framed his enquiries so as to make the revelation of a latent antipathy as easy as possible.
  • He had kept his voice cheerful as he spoke, but he had grown a shade paler, and there was a latent anguish deep in his eyes.
  • Hero-worship is an imaginative passion in which latent ideals assume picturesque shapes and take actual persons for their symbols.
  • The Labyrinth Spider has simply taught us that instinct possesses resources which are employed or left latent according to the conditions of the moment.
  • But when we come to the girl who is the presiding deity, or rather the tutelary angel of the scene, how are all discords harmonized; how all its latent music poured forth!
  • A man whose first thought is bestial indulgence could neither think clearly nor plan methodically; he could not find and develop his latent resources, and would fail in any undertaking.
  • But upon closer consideration we shall have to admit of a tiny bit of distortion, a certain differentiation between manifest dream content and latent dream thought, even in these dreams.
  • Knowing, as he did, that such a charge had once been connected with his name, he would of course be perpetually uneasy, and suspect some latent insinuation at every possible opportunity.