Latent

Adjective

 * 1) Existing or present but concealed or inactive.
 * 2) * 2008 July 2, Joe Palca, “Scientists Make Herpes Breakthrough”, abstract, All Things Considered, National Public Radio
 * Those infected with a herpes virus are infected for life. That’s because the virus goes "latent." Sometimes, it awakes from its slumber, producing painful illnesses.

Synonyms

 * dormant

Antonyms

 * patent

Related terms

 * latency

Adverbs for Latent
imperceptibly; mysteriously; inferentially; implicitly; unsuspectedly; darkly; confusingly; mistily; indistlnguishably; astoundingly; unhappily; impenetrably; unfortunately.

Thesaurus
abeyant, abstruse, apathetic, arcane, beclouded, behind the curtain, behind the scenes, between the lines, blind, buried, cabalistic, camouflaged, cataleptic, catatonic, censored, classified, close, closed, clouded, concealed, covered, covert, cryptic, dark, dead, delitescent, disguised, dopey, dormant, dull, eclipsed, enigmatic, esoteric, flat, foul, groggy, heavy, hermetic, hibernating, hid, hidden, hush-hush, idle, immature, imperceptible, in a cloud, in a fog, in abeyance, in eclipse, in purdah, in suspense, in the wings, inactive, incommunicado, indiscernible, inert, insensible, invisible, languid, languorous, leaden, lifeless, logy, lurking, muffled, mysterious, mystic, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, occult, out of sight, passive, phlegmatic, possible, potential, quiescent, recondite, restricted, secluded, secluse, secret, sedentary, sequestered, sightless, slack, sleeping, sluggish, slumbering, smoldering, smothered, stagnant, standing, static, stifled, submerged, suppressed, suspended, tame, top secret, torpid, ulterior, unapparent, unaroused, unbeheld, unbeholdable, unbreatheable, under an eclipse, under cover, under house arrest, under security, under the surface, under wraps, underground, underlying, undiscernible, undisclosable, undisclosed, undivulgable, undivulged, unknown, unmanifested, unmatured, unnoticed, unobserved, unperceivable, unperceived, unrealized, unrevealable, unrevealed, unripe, unseeable, unseen, unspoken, untellable, untold, unutterable, unuttered, unviewed, unwhisperable, unwitnessed, veiled, viewless, virtual, wrapped in clouds

Etymology
From latens:, present participle of lateo:.

Translations

 * Danish:
 * Estonian: latentne, varjatud
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:, ανεκδήλωτος,
 * Hebrew: חבוי, רדום, לטנטי


 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Polish: ukryty, uśpiony
 * Portuguese: latente
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: latent, fördröjning

Anagrams

 * latten
 * talent

Adjective

 * 1) latent (existing or present but concealed or inactive)

Etymology
From latent:, from  latent:, from  latens:, present participle of latere:.

Anagrams

 * talent

Adjective

 * 1) latent

Related terms

 * Latenz