Ostensibly

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ostensibly \Os*ten"si*bly\ ([o^]s*t[e^]n"s[i^]*bl[y^]), adv.
     In an ostensible manner; avowedly; professedly; apparently.
     --Walsh.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Ostensibly, we were intended to prevent filibustering


           into Texas, but really as a menace to Mexico. --U. S.
                                                    Grant.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ostensibly
       adv : 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}, {on
             the face of it}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  60 Moby Thesaurus words for "ostensibly":
     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