manifest.

1. Easy to see or recognize.

2. Show or reveal a quality, feeling, or condition.

3. An official list of goods or people carried by a vessel or vehicle.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• manifest error
• manifest injustice

On the page

The contradiction was manifest in the final paragraph.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Comparative more manifest; superlative most manifest when comparison is meaningful.. Noun singular manifest; plural manifests. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, evaluation, qualification. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: manifests.