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From Middle English manifest, manifeste, from Latin manifestus, manufestus (“palpable, manifest”), from Latin manus (“hand”) + an uncertain second element. Doublet of manifesto.

manifest (comparative more manifest, superlative most manifest)

  1. Evident to the senses, especially to the sight; apparent; distinctly perceived.
    • 2017 October 27, Alex McLevy, “Making a Killing: The Brief Life and Bloody Death of the Post-Scream Slasher Revival”, in The A.V. Club‎[1], archived from the original on 5 March 2018:
  2. Obvious to the understanding; apparent to the mind; easily apprehensible; plain; not obscure or hidden.
  3. (rare, with of) Detect; convicted.

evident to the senses, especially to the sight; apparent

manifest (plural manifests)

  1. A list or invoice of the passengers or goods being carried by a commercial vehicle or ship.
    Coordinate terms: bill of goods, bill of sale, schedule
    Near-synonym: bill of lading
    ship's manifest
  2. (computing) A file containing metadata describing other files.
  3. (obsolete) A public declaration; an open statement; a manifesto.

list of passengers or goods

obsolete: public declaration

manifest (third-person singular simple present manifests, present participle manifesting, simple past and past participle manifested)

  1. (transitive) To show plainly; to make to appear distinctly, usually to the mind; to put beyond question or doubt; to display; to exhibit.
    His courage manifested itself through the look on his face.
    • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 312, column 1:
      My Parts, my Title, and my perfect Soule / Shall manifeſt me rightly.
    • 1988, Dennis Marcellino, Sweeping it under the drug, page 123:
      And usually this manifests as them trying to prove their parent's criticism's and belittlings wrong.
    • 2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in The Guardian‎[2]:
      Other global taboos, such as sex and suicide, manifest themselves widely online, with websites offering suicide guides and Hot XXX Action seconds away at the click of a button. The UK government will come under pressure to block access to pornographic websites this year when a committee of MPs publishes its report on protecting children online.
    • 2012, Justin D. Yeakel et al., “Stable isotopes, functional morphology, and human evolution: a model of consilience”, in arXiv‎[3]:
      Molar enamel thickness is a morphological trait that differentiates African apes from hominins, being manifested most dramatically in the megadont hominins (Paranthropus spp.) with hyperthick enamel.
    • 2019 September 24, Jessie Yeung, quoting Pope Francis, “Pope Francis loves nouns but is ‘allergic’ to adjectives”, in CNN‎[4], archived from the original on 27 September 2019:
      Communication is a kind of beauty, he said – and “beauty manifests itself from the noun itself, without strawberries on the cake.”
  2. (intransitive) To become manifest; to be revealed.
    His osteoporosis first manifested as pain in his hips.
  3. (transitive, originally New Thought, now also slang) To will something to exist.
    • 1982, Shakti Gawain, The Creative Visualization Workbook‎[5]:
      The process of creating your treasure map is a powerful step toward manifesting your goal. Now just spend a few minutes each day looking at it […]
    • 2014, Adrian Calabrese, How to Get Everything You Ever Wanted: Complete Guide to Using Your Psychic Common Sense‎[6]:
      Undaunted by poverty, I decided to manifest a new car.
    • 2021, Kyle Buchanan, “Dominique Fishback Gave Her Heart to ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’”, in The New York Times‎[7]:
      To Fishback, the project is a perfect fit. “I’ve been manifesting a romance role for a really long time,” she said,
  4. (transitive) To exhibit the manifests or prepared invoices of; to declare at the customhouse.

(transitive) to show plainly; to make to appear distinctly

(transitive) to exhibit the manifests or prepared invoices of; to declare at the customhouse

manifest (feminine manifesta, masculine plural manifests or manifestos, feminine plural manifestes)

  1. manifest, obvious

manifest m (plural manifests or manifestos)

  1. manifesto

From Latin manifestare (“make public, declare”).

manifest

  1. manifesto

manifest m inan

  1. manifesto

Declension of manifest (hard masculine inanimate)

manifest n (singular definite manifestet, plural indefinite manifester)

  1. manifesto

Borrowed from Middle French manifeste.

manifest n (plural manifesten, diminutive manifestje n)

  1. manifest

manifest (not comparable)

  1. manifest; obvious, undeniable
Declension of manifest
uninflected manifest
inflected manifeste
comparative —
positive
predicative/adverbial manifest
indefinite m./f. sing. manifeste
n. sing. manifest
plural manifeste
definite manifeste
partitive manifests

manifest (strong nominative masculine singular manifester, comparative manifester, superlative am manifestesten)

  1. manifest

Positive forms of manifest

Comparative forms of manifest

Superlative forms of manifest

Borrowed from Italian manifesto.

manifest m (plural manifesti)

  1. manifesto (public declaration)

From Latin manifestus.

manifest n (definite singular manifestet, indefinite plural **manifest or manifester, definite plural manifesta or manifestene)

  1. a manifesto

From Latin manifestus.

manifest n (definite singular manifestet, indefinite plural **manifest, definite plural manifesta)

  1. a manifesto

Borrowed from French manifeste, from Middle French manifeste, from Latin manifēstus, manufestus (“palpable, manifest”), from manus (“hand”) + *infestus, participle of *infendere "strike".

manifest m inan

  1. manifesto (public declaration)

Borrowed from French manifeste.

manifest n (plural manifești)

  1. manifest

From English manifest.

manifest (third-person singular simple present manifests, present participle manifestin, simple past and past participle manifestit)

  1. to manifest

manifest (not comparable)

  1. manifest

Inflection of manifest

Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular manifest — —
neuter singular manifestt — —
plural manifesta — —
masculine plural2 manifeste — —
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 manifeste — —
all manifesta — —

1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

manifest n

  1. a manifesto
    fila på ett manifest
    work on a manifesto