latent
adjective
they have a huge reserve of latent talent:
dormant, quiescent, inactive, untapped, unused;
undiscovered, hidden, unrevealed, unexpressed, concealed, unapparent, indiscernible, imperceptible, invisible, inert, covert, unseen, veiled, masked, lurking, undeveloped, unrealized, unfulfilled, potential, not activated, inoperative, in abeyance, suppressed, repressed;
possible, likely, underlying, inherent, innermost, immanent, inchoate, unacknowledged, subconscious, unconscious, sleeping.
▷antonyms manifest, obvious; active.
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