on the face of it English

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on the face of it

— adverb (= apparently, seemingly, ostensibly) 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

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on the face of it English » English

seemingly

apparently

ostensibly

prima facie

ostensively

by the looks of things

at first blush

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Seem

• What words indicate that something seems to be happening, or something seems to be true?
  it seems it appears it looks as if apparently to all appearances by all appearances seemingly on the face of it on the surface outwardly