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General dictionaries General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. ostensible: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  2. ostensible: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  3. ostensible: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  4. ostensible: Wiktionary [home, info]
  5. ostensible: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  6. ostensible: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  7. ostensible: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  8. Ostensible, ostensible: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  9. ostensible: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  10. ostensible: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  11. ostensible: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  12. Ostensible: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  13. ostensible: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  14. ostensible: Rhymezone [home, info]
  15. ostensible: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  16. ostensible: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  17. ostensible: Hutchinson's Dictionary of Difficult Words [home, info]
  18. ostensible: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  19. ostensible: Hutchinson Dictionaries [home, info]
  20. ostensible: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  21. ostensible: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  22. ostensible: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  23. ostensible: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ostensible: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ostensible: Technical and Popular Medical Terms [home, info]
  2. ostensible: online medical dictionary [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ostensible: Biological Sciences Dictionary [home, info]

Quick definitions (ostensible)

adjective:  represented or appearing as such; pretended ("His ostensible purpose was charity, his real goal popularity")
adjective:  appearing as such but not necessarily so ("The ostensible truth of their theories")

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Phrases that include ostensible:   ostensible agent, ostensible authority

Words similar to ostensible:   apparent, ostensive, seeming, more...


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