Associations to the word «Ostensibly»

OSTENSIBLY, adverb. (modal) seemingly, apparently, on the surface

OSTENSIBLY, adverb. From appearances alone; "irrigation often produces bumper crops from apparently desert land"; "the child is seemingly healthy but the doctor is concerned"; "had been ostensibly frank as to his purpose while really concealing it"-Thomas Hardy; "on the face of it the problem seems minor".