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say it: ah-STEN-suh-blee
ostensibly is an adverb meaning "from appearances alone". It is pronounced /ɑˈstɛnsəbli/ — ah-STEN-suh-blee. It carries one recorded sense.
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”
“on the face of it the problem seems minor”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ostensibly come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.