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ostensible 音標拼音: [ɑst'ɛnsəbəl] a. 表面的,假裝的 表面的,假裝的 ostensible adj 1: appearing as such but not necessarily so; " for all his apparent wealth he had no money to pay the rent"; " the committee investigated some apparent discrepancies"; " the ostensible truth of their theories"; " his seeming honesty" [ synonym: { apparent( a)}, { ostensible}, { seeming( a)}] 2: represented or appearing as such; pretended; " His ostensible purpose was charity, his real goal popularity" [ synonym: { ostensible}, { ostensive}] Ostensible \ Os* ten" si* ble\ ([ o^] s* t[ e^] n" s[ i^]* b' l), a. [ From L. ostensus, p. p. of ostendere to show, prop., to stretch out before; fr. prefix obs- ( old form of ob-) tendere to stretch. See { Tend}.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. Capable of being shown; proper or intended to be shown. [ R.] -- Walpole. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Outwardly appearing to be; shown to be; exhibited; apparent; evident. [ 1913 Webster PJC] 3. Declared; avowed; professed; pretended; -- often used as opposed to { real} or { actual}; as, an ostensible reason, motive, or aim. -- D. Ramsay. [ 1913 Webster PJC] 83 Moby Thesaurus words for " ostensible": Barmecidal, Barmecide, airy, alleged, apparent, apparitional, appearing, arrant, autistic, avowed, blatant, bold, chimeric, claimed, colorable, colored, conspicuous, deceptive, delusional, delusionary, delusive, delusory, dereistic, dreamlike, dreamy, erroneous, fallacious, false, fantastic, flagrant, gilded, glaring, hanging out, hypocritical, illusional, illusionary, illusive, illusory, imaginary, in name only, in relief, in the foreground, meretricious, misleading, notable, noticeable, notorious, obtrusive, outstanding, outward, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantom, plausible, pretended, pretexted, professed, prominent, pronounced, purported, salient, seeming, self- deceptive, self- deluding, so- called, specious, spectral, staring, stark- staring, sticking out, striking, superficial, supposed, supposititious, surface, tinsel, to the eye, unactual, unfounded, unreal, unsubstantial, visible, visionary
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