Latent is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LATENT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a barely visible fingerprint that can be developed for study
• fingerprint that is not visible to the eye
ADJECTIVE:
• hidden
• (of a quality or state) existing but not yet developed or manifest; hidden or concealed
• lying dormant or hidden until circumstances are suitable for development or manifestation
• (of a disease) not yet manifesting the usual symptoms
• (of a microorganism, especially a virus) present in the body without causing disease, but capable of doing so at a later stage, or when transmitted to another body.
• hidden and not yet developed
• Not visible or apparent; hidden; springs of action.
• potentially existing but not presently evident or realized
• (pathology) not presently active

Words related to LATENT

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How to use LATENT in a sentence

• If our latent business capacity were more fully aroused, we should get much more out of life.
• Alfred, as he walked away, was conscious of that latent, unspoken wish.
• And indeed it was a day to call forth all the latent energies of the most phlegmatic person.
• His glance and his smile, his latent energy, would have inspired devotion in a wooden block.
• It is impossible to mention a name, which any advantageous distinction has made eminent, but some latent animosity will burst out.
• The heat required to change the ice from the solid to the liquid state is the latent heat of water.
• Hence the longing to satisfy latent passions, with the fugitive pleasure in doing so.
• In connection with the Latent Fingerprint Section there is maintained a general appearance file of many confidence game operators.
• Sometimes it is possible to photograph the skin or finger in the same manner as one does a latent print.
• The degree of enlargement is not important in itself, so long as the ridges of the latent print are readily distinguishable by the eye.
• There is a grievous amount of latent master-making talent spoiling to-day for want of development.
• But what ideas are thus disturbed? There are thousands of these latent ideas, embryonic thoughts, beneath the surface.
• But behind a reproduction of a Gainsborough painting was a wall safe that must have been built before Rhine Institute discovered the key to man’s latent abilities.
• Sometimes, dimly, I had divined latent goodness in him, as one divines vague, lovely shapes floating under dark depths of water.
• Amongst you all, the latent fire of him Whose guide I am, rages most fiercely, Though he is mute for want of boldness To make known his sorrows to his deity.
• A beautiful woman is born with a latent consciousness of her power over the subjugated sex.
• They kindled the passion which had been always latent in Israel, since the day when Moses led forth the slaves of Egypt to found a nation of freemen.
• Glowing reports went home to the King concerning the latent possibilities of the New World.
• Once united, there was comparatively little danger that passing years would develop latent tastes that might prove dissimilar.
• The evils latent in the most promising contrivances are provided for as they arise.
• His face was sober, with a latent glow of expectation in it.
• His latent power and resolution began to show themselves darkly in his face.
• This sense he believed to exist, though latent, in every one, and to be susceptible of development by cultivation.
• It is among those powers, latent in peace, which war and insurrection call into being, but which are as intrinsically constitutional as any other power.

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