ostensible English

Meaning ostensible meaning

What does ostensible mean?

ostensible

— adjective represented or appearing as such; pretended His ostensible purpose was charity, his real goal popularity

— adjective (= apparent, seeming) 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 ostensible synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as ostensible?

ostensible English » English

apparent

seeming

ostensive

alleged

supposed

so-called

professed

phenomenal

obvious

would-be

trumped-up

spurious

specious

reputed

putative

purported

public

pseudo

pretended

outward appearance

outward

on the surface

official

illusive

hypothetic

factitious

evident

asserted

appearing