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[syn: apparently, seemingly, ostensibly, on the face of it]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Seemingly \Seem"ing*ly\, adv.
In appearance; in show; in semblance; apparently; ostensibly.
[1913 Webster]
This the father seemingly complied with. --Addison.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
seemingly
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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
48 Moby Thesaurus words for "seemingly":
allegedly, apparently, artificially, as it seems, as it were,
assumably, assumedly, assumptively, at first sight, conceivably,
erroneously, evidently, factitiously, falsely, feasibly,
in name only, in seeming, nominally, officially, on the surface,
ostensibly, outwardly, plausibly, possibly, presumably, presumedly,
presumptively, prima facie, professedly, purportedly, quasi,
reputedly, speciously, spuriously, superficially, supposably,
supposedly, suppositionally, supposititiously, synthetically,
to all appearances, to all seeming, to the eye, truthlessly,
ungenuinely, unnaturally, untruly, unveraciously