Usually means: Appearing so, but perhaps not.
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  1. ostensibly: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ostensibly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ostensibly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. ostensibly: Vocabulary.com
  5. Ostensibly, ostensibly: Wordnik
  6. ostensibly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. ostensibly: Wiktionary
  8. Ostensibly, ostensibly: Dictionary.com
  9. ostensibly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Ostensibly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. ostensibly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. ostensibly: Rhymezone
  13. Ostensibly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. ostensibly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. ostensibly: Free Dictionary
  16. ostensibly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. ostensibly: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  18. ostensibly: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ostensibly: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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▸ adverb:  (modal) Seemingly, apparently, on the surface.

Similar:
seemingly, apparently, on the face of it, semblably, ostensively, surfacely, speciously, unseemingly, deceptively, perceivedly, more...

Opposite:
actually, really, truly, in reality

Types:
seemingly, apparently, more...

Phrases:
opposite of ostensibly, ostensibly stylish, more...

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Similar:
seemingly, apparently, on the face of it, semblably, ostensively, surfacely, speciously, unseemingly, deceptively, perceivedly, more...

Opposite:
actually, really, truly, in reality

Types:
seemingly, apparently, more...

Phrases:
opposite of ostensibly, ostensibly stylish, more...



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