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List of meaning for ostensibly

to all outward appearances

apparently, seemingly, ostensibly, on the face of it(adverb)

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"

to all outward appearances

ostensibly a university student studying abroad, he was actually an espionage agent

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