'ostensible' definitions:
Definition of 'ostensible'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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)]
adjective
Represented or appearing as such; pretended; "His ostensible purpose was charity, his real goal popularity" [syn: ostensible, ostensive]
Synonyms of 'ostensible'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- airy,
- alleged,
- apparent,
- apparitional,
- appearing,
- arrant,
- autistic,
- avowed,
- Barmecidal,
- Barmecide,
- 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