ostensibly adverb os· ten· si· bly ä-ˈsten (t)-sə-blē ə- 1 : in an ostensible manner 2 : to all outward appearances Synonyms apparently evidently ostensively presumably putatively …

Meaning of ostensibly in English ostensibly adverb uk / ɒsˈten.sə.bli / us / ɑːˈsten.sə.bli / in a way that appears or claims to be one thing when it is really something else: He has spent the …

Ostensibly is an adverb you use to talk about something that looks one way, but underneath there's the hint of a different motivation for that action. One day you go to an ice cream shop. Then the next day. And the next. You keep going, ostensibly to buy ice cream, but there’s a deeper reason. The cute person who works there, perhaps?

os·ten·si·ble (ŏ-stĕn′sə-bəl) adj. Represented or appearing as such; ostensive: His ostensible purpose was charity, but his real goal was popularity. [French, from Medieval Latin ostēnsibilis, from Latin ostēnsus, past participle of ostendere, to show : ob-, ob- + tendere, to stretch; see ten- in Indo-European roots .] os·ten′si·bly adv.

Ostensibly is defined as apparently or seemingly. An example of ostensibly is someone saying that he was just a dog owner when, in fact, he was a dog breeder, he was ostensibly a dog …

ostensibly abverb from appearances alone Synonyms : apparently, on the face of it, seemingly "had been ostensibly frank as to his purpose while really concealing it" "irrigation often produces bumper crops from apparently desert land" "on the face of it the problem seems minor" "the child is seemingly healthy but the doctor is concerned"

appearing or claiming to be one thing when it is really something else: Their ostensible goal was to clean up government corruption, but their real aim was to unseat the government. Synonym. …

Ostensibly it is written in opposition to Whiston's attempt to show that the books of the Old Testament did originally contain prophecies of events in the New Testament story, but that these had been eliminated or corrupted by the Jews, and to prove that the fulfilment of prophecy by the events of Christ's life is all "secondary, secret, allegorical, and mystical," since the original and …

represented or appearing as such; pretended represented or appearing as such; pretended Fine Dictionary ostensible ɑˈstɛnsəbəl WordNet # Interesting fact After the great fire of Rome in A.D. 64, the emperor Nero ostensibly decided to lay the blame on Christians residing in the city of Rome.

(manner) In an ostensive manner. Wiktionary (modal) Ostensibly. Wiktionary Synonyms: superficially seemingly outwardly ostensibly externally evidently apparently Origin of …