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ostensibly meaning and definition
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Definition of 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"
- synonyms: apparently, on the face of it, seemingly
Source: Princeton University Wordnet