Manifested

How to spell manifested

10 letters · 4 syllables

How to pronounce manifested

Say the part in capitals loudest.

What does manifested mean?

1. verbShowed or displayed something clearly, so that it became obvious or apparent.
2. verbBrought something into reality or existence through focused intention or effort.

Manifested in a sentence

• The illness first manifested as a mild fever and fatigue.

• She believed her daily goals had manifested the promotion she wanted.

• His frustration manifested in short, clipped replies to every email.

• The founders manifested their idea into a thriving small business.

Where does manifested come from?

Language of origin: Latin

This word traces back to the Latin manifestus, an adjective meaning 'plainly visible', 'obvious', or quite literally 'caught in the act'. Scholars connect it to manus, meaning 'hand', joined to a second element related to -festus, which carried the sense of 'struck' or 'seized'; the original image is of something so clear that it might as well be grasped by the hand or seized red-handed. Latin developed a verb, manifestare, meaning 'to make plain or reveal', and this passed into Old French as manifester before reaching English in the late 1300s. Early English use kept the legal flavour of something proven beyond doubt, but the broader sense of 'to show or display clearly' soon dominated. The past-tense form simply adds -ed, and the spelling trap is the quiet unstressed vowel in the middle: writers must remember it is mani-FEST, not 'mani-fist' or 'manni-'.

How the word is built

• mani- (from manus: hand)
• -fest (from -festus: struck, seized)
• -ed (past-tense suffix)