Question

Choose the word that is most OPPOSITE in meaning to the word given in capitals.

LATENT

• A. Concealed
• B. Real
• C. Apparent
• D. Dubious

Hint:

Latent means hidden or not yet active, like a seed still under the soil. Its opposite must mean clearly visible right now.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is C

A useful way to picture LATENT is a seed buried in the soil: the plant is already there in potential, but nobody can see it yet. The opposite word should describe the same plant once it has broken through the soil and stands in plain sight.

1. Concealed: This describes something being kept out of sight on purpose, which matches the buried seed picture rather than reversing it.
2. Real: A buried seed is already real even while hidden, so calling something real does not tell us whether it has broken through the soil or not. It does not answer the visible versus hidden question.
3. Apparent: This describes the plant once it has grown above the soil, fully visible to anyone walking past. It reverses the buried, hidden state of latent into a fully shown state.
4. Dubious: This word is about whether something can be trusted or believed, which has nothing to do with whether the plant is above or below the soil.

Only apparent moves the picture from buried and unseen to grown and visible, which is the true reversal of latent.

Let's summarize:

• Latent is like a seed still buried in the soil, present but unseen.
• Concealed matches the buried state, while Real and Dubious answer different questions entirely.
• Apparent is the plant once it is visible above ground, the correct opposite.

So the correct opposite of latent is option (3), Apparent.