About The Word Ostensible
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Ostensible
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What's The Definition Of Ostensible?
[adj] represented or appearing as such; pretended; "His ostensible purpose was charity, his real goal popularity"
[adj] 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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Ostensible: apparent(a) | counterfeit | imitative | ostensive | seeming(a) | superficial Related Terms | Find terms related to Ostensible: airy | alleged | apparent | apparitional | appearing | arrant | autistic | avowed | Barmecidal | Barmecide | blatant | bold | chimeric | claimed | colorable | colored | conspicuous | deceptive | delusional | delusionary | delusive | delusory | dereistic | dreamlike | dreamy | erroneous | fallacious | false | fantastic | flagrant | gilded | glaring | hanging out | hypocritical | illusional | illusionary | illusive | illusory | imaginary | in name only | in relief | in the foreground | meretricious | misleading | notable | noticeable | notorious | obtrusive | outstanding | outward | phantasmagoric | phantasmal | phantom | plausible | pretended | pretexted | professed | prominent | pronounced | purported | salient | seeming | self-deceptive | self-deluding | so-called | specious | spectral | staring | stark-staring | sticking out | striking | superficial | supposed | supposititious | surface | tinsel | to the eye | unactual | unfounded | unreal | unsubstantial | visible | visionary See Also | Ostensible In Webster's Dictionary \Os*ten"si*ble\, a. [From L. ostensus, p. p. of
ostendere to show, prop., to stretch out before; fr. prefix
obs- (old form of ob-) + tendere to stretch. See {Tend}.]
1. Capable of being shown; proper or intended to be shown.
[R.] --Walpole.
2. Shown; exhibited; declared; avowed; professed; apparent;
-- often used as opposed to {real} or {actual}; as, an
ostensible reason, motive, or aim. --D. Ramsay.
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