'ostensibly' definitions:
Definition of 'ostensibly'
(from WordNet)
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" [syn: apparently, seemingly, ostensibly, on the face of it]
Synonyms of 'ostensibly'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- allegedly,
- apparently,
- arrantly,
- artificially,
- as a cover,
- as a pretext,
- as an excuse,
- as it seems,
- at first sight,
- avowedly,
- blatantly,
- boldly,
- clearly,
- conspicuously,
- demonstrably,
- erroneously,
- evidently,
- externally,
- factitiously,
- falsely,
- flagrantly,
- for public consumption,
- for the record,
- glaringly,
- in name only,
- manifestly,
- markedly,
- nominally,
- notably,
- noticeably,
- notoriously,
- obtrusively,
- obviously,
- on the surface,
- ostensively,
- outstandingly,
- outwardly,
- patently,
- plainly,
- plausibly,
- prima facie,
- professedly,
- prominently,
- pronouncedly,
- purportedly,
- saliently,
- seemingly,
- spuriously,
- staringly,
- strikingly,
- superficially,
- synthetically,
- to all appearances,
- to all seeming,
- to the eye,
- truthlessly,
- ungenuinely,
- unnaturally,
- untruly,
- unveraciously