seemingly

3 definitions found

seemingly - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Seemingly \Seem"ing*ly\, adv.
     In appearance; in show; in semblance; apparently; ostensibly.
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           This the father seemingly complied with. --Addison.
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seemingly - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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]

seemingly - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  48 Moby Thesaurus words for "seemingly":
     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