adverb
- From appearances alone.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: apparently, seemingly, on the face of it
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