Other forms: manifests, manifested, manifesting, manifestly
When something is manifest it is so plain that arguing about it is silly. His relief was manifest. The manifest unfairness of the rule.
As a verb it means to show something openly, and it very often turns on itself: the illness manifests as a rash, the anger manifested itself in small ways. That reflexive form — manifest itself — is worth learning whole. There is also a noun with a different job entirely: a ship's or plane's manifest is the list of what is on board.
1adjectiveevidentObvious; plain to see.~45%
“The damage to the roof was manifest from the road.”
formal in this meaning — an editor’s judgement
synonyms: evident, obvious
2verbmanifestTo show something clearly, or to appear.~50%
“The fault manifests itself only when the engine is cold.”
formal in this meaning — an editor’s judgement
3nounofficialThe official list of cargo or passengers on a ship or plane.~5%
“Her name was not on the manifest.”
Shares are an estimate: a language model read 139 sentences found in the wild and placed 112 of them on a sense (27 were unclear) — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.
MAN-ifest → a MAN standing there
A man stands in the middle of the road with his arms out. Nobody has to explain to you that he is there.
hooks ontoman
From Latin manifestus, palpable — built on manus, the hand. Something manifest is plain enough to be taken hold of, not merely argued about.
Latin
manifestus
Middle English
manifest
English, today
manifest
Built from
From Middle English manifest, manifeste, from Latin manifestus, manufestus (“palpable, manifest”), from Latin manus (“hand”) + an uncertain second element. a doublet of manifesto.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA