Associations to the word «Ostensible»
Noun
Wiktionary
OSTENSIBLE, adjective. Apparent, evident; meant for open display.
OSTENSIBLE, adjective. Appearing as such; being such in appearance; professed, supposed (rather than demonstrably true or real).
Dictionary definition
OSTENSIBLE, adjective. Appearing as such but not necessarily so; "for all his apparent wealth he had no money to pay the rent"; "the committee investigated some apparent discrepancies"; "the ostensible truth of their theories"; "his seeming honesty".
OSTENSIBLE, adjective. Represented or appearing as such; pretended; "His ostensible purpose was charity, his real goal popularity".
Wise words
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe.
Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with
things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.