seemingly

  • (r) 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
    apparently, on the face of it, ostensibly,

Synonyms

apparently on the face of it ostensibly

Words of close approximity