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Wordnet 3.0

ADVERB (1)

1. from appearances alone;
- Example: "irrigation often produces bumper crops from apparently desert land"
- Example: "the child is seemingly healthy but the doctor is concerned"
- Example: "had been ostensibly frank as to his purpose while really concealing it"-Thomas Hardy
- Example: "on the face of it the problem seems minor"
[syn: apparently, seemingly, ostensibly, on the face of it]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

on the face of it
    adv 1: 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"-Thomas Hardy; "on the face of it the
           problem seems minor" [syn: apparently, seemingly,
           ostensibly, on the face of it]