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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
ostensible
adj 1: 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" [syn: apparent(a), ostensible, seeming(a)]
2: represented or appearing as such; pretended; "His ostensible
purpose was charity, his real goal popularity" [syn:
ostensible, ostensive]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Ostensible \Os*ten"si*ble\ ([o^]s*t[e^]n"s[i^]*b'l), a. [From L.
ostensus, p. p. of ostendere to show, prop., to stretch out
before; fr. prefix obs- (old form of ob-) + tendere to
stretch. See Tend.]
[1913 Webster]
1. Capable of being shown; proper or intended to be shown.
[R.] --Walpole.
[1913 Webster]
2. Outwardly appearing to be; shown to be; exhibited;
apparent; evident.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
3. Declared; avowed; professed; pretended; -- often used as
opposed to real or actual; as, an ostensible reason,
motive, or aim. --D. Ramsay.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
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Thesaurus Results for Ostensible:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
Barmecidal, Barmecide, airy, alleged, apparent, apparitional, appearing, arrant, autistic, avowed, blatant, bold, chimeric, claimed, colorable, colored, conspicuous, deceptive, delusional, delusionary, delusive, delusory, dereistic, dreamlike, dreamy, erroneous, fallacious, false, fantastic, flagrant, gilded, glaring, hanging out, hypocritical, illusional, illusionary, illusive, illusory, imaginary, in name only, in relief, in the foreground, meretricious, misleading, notable, noticeable, notorious, obtrusive, outstanding, outward, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantom, plausible, pretended, pretexted, professed, prominent, pronounced, purported, salient, seeming, self-deceptive, self-deluding, so-called, specious, spectral, staring, stark-staring, sticking out, striking, superficial, supposed, supposititious, surface, tinsel, to the eye, unactual, unfounded, unreal, unsubstantial, visible, visionary |
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Common Misspellings > |
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