OSTENSIVELY Synonyms: 42 Similar and Opposite Words

ostensively

adverb

as in seemingly

to all outward appearances he stops by his old office periodically, ostensively just to say "hi"

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Beneath red tinsel and in the dim glow of club lighting, six young couples kiss, each seemingly wrapped up in their own little worlds.

— Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 22 July 2026
The Seminoles seemingly didn’t have the funding to be aggressive in the transfer portal and signed Daniels to fill the void at quarterback.

— Antonio Morales, New York Times, 22 July 2026

Definition of seemingly

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This update will kick off some indexing work that will then be leveraged in an ostensibly much more robust Spotlight search feature when iOS 27 launches next month.

— Samuel Axon, ArsTechnica, 27 July 2026
So call it a quiet, workmanlike beginning for the 13th player taken in the NFL draft, a quarterback the Rams ostensibly chose to become Matthew Stafford’s heir apparent.

— Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2026

Definition of ostensibly

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So reasoning traces, the very things that supposedly distinguish LRMs from the mere next-word-predicting LLMs, are not necessarily either meaningful or causal to a model’s … reasoning?

— John Pavlus, Quanta Magazine, 31 July 2026
Maybe the domain is too diseased to rehabilitate for clicks, even under its supposedly privacy-forward rebrand.

— Maggie Harrison Dupré, Futurism, 30 July 2026

Definition of supposedly

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The franchise has been a perennial contender for years, though one of their first-ever household stars evidently feels that having played north of the border has been a challenge to his legacy.

— Peter Chawaga, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026
People won’t buy welcome mats, evidently, from a guy with such spacing.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 July 2026

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