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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

seemingly
    adv 1: 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" [syn: apparently, seemingly,
           ostensibly, on the face of it]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Seemingly \Seem"ing*ly\, adv.
   In appearance; in show; in semblance; apparently; ostensibly.
   [1913 Webster]

         This the father seemingly complied with. --Addison.
   [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for Seemingly:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

allegedly, apparently, artificially, as it seems, as it were, assumably, assumedly, assumptively, at first sight, conceivably, erroneously, evidently, factitiously, falsely, feasibly, in name only, in seeming, nominally, officially, on the surface, ostensibly, outwardly, plausibly, possibly, presumably, presumedly, presumptively, prima facie, professedly, purportedly, quasi, reputedly, speciously, spuriously, superficially, supposably, supposedly, suppositionally, supposititiously, synthetically, to all appearances, to all seeming, to the eye, truthlessly, ungenuinely, unnaturally, untruly, unveraciously

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