SEEMING vs OSTENSIBLE: NOUN
- Outward appearance; semblance.
- Appearance; show; outward appearance or looks; semblance; especially, a false appearance.
- Fair appearance.
- Appearance; show; semblance; fair appearance; speciousness.
- Apprehension; judgment.
- Outward appearance
- Apprehension; judgement
- Opinion; judgment; way of thinking; estimate; apprehension.
- N/A
SEEMING vs OSTENSIBLE: ADJECTIVE
- Having a semblance, whether with or without reality; apparent; specious; befitting.
- Apparent
- Appearing as such but not necessarily so
- Apparent; ostensible.
- Represented or appearing as such; pretended
- Appearing as such but not necessarily so
- Alleged, having an intention that is possibly but not obviously true
- Represented or appearing as such; ostensive.
- Meant for open display; apparent
- Declared; avowed; professed; pretended; -- often used as opposed to real or actual.
- Outwardly appearing to be; shown to be; exhibited; apparent; evident.
SEEMING vs OSTENSIBLE: VERB
- Appear to one's own mind or opinion
- Seem to be true, probable, or apparent
- Give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect
- Present participle of seem.
- Appear to exist
- N/A
SEEMING vs OSTENSIBLE: OTHER WORD TYPES
- In a becoming or seemly manner; seemly.
- Becoming; befitting; proper; seemly.
- That appears to be (real, proper, or the like); having a semblance or appearance of being real, or what is purported; ostensible; apparent: as, seeming happiness; a seeming friend.
- Pretended
- Represented or appearing as such
- Capable of being shown; that may be shown; proper or intended to be shown.
- Put forth or held out as real, actual, or intended; apparent; professed: as, a person's ostensible reason or motive for doing something.
SEEMING vs OSTENSIBLE: RELATED WORDS
- Reputed, Similar, Tantamount, Visible, Virtual, Akin, Manifest, Overt, Pretend, Evident, Pretending, Perceived, Superficial, Ostensible, Apparent
- Official, Declared, Visible, Manifest, Evident, Blatant, Overt, Conspicuous, Obvious, Counterfeit, Imitative, Superficial, Ostensive, Apparent, Seeming
SEEMING vs OSTENSIBLE: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Reputed, Similar, Tantamount, Visible, Virtual, Akin, Manifest, Overt, Pretend, Evident, Pretending, Perceived, Superficial, Ostensible, Apparent
- Official, Declared, Visible, Manifest, Evident, Blatant, Overt, Conspicuous, Obvious, Counterfeit, Imitative, Superficial, Ostensive, Apparent, Seeming
SEEMING vs OSTENSIBLE: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- Bible can help us understand the seeming divide.
- Our health system renders casualties without seeming to.
- It involves a terrific deal of seeming contradictions.
- How can these two seeming differences be reconciled?
- And I will judge your seeming rationality accordingly.
- The challenge is to overcome this seeming tension.
- They worked with maximum efficiency and seeming enjoyment.
- How to make sense of this seeming contradiction?
- This is suddenly seeming like an important question.
- This physiognomy was strangely composed; it began by seeming humble, and ended by seeming severe.
- From there, your ostensible goal is to build up a farm.
- Maliki, a fervent Al Qaeda foe and ostensible American ally.
- Bill Weld, an ostensible challenger to the Republican presidential nomination.
- The ostensible experience of temporal flow is thus an illusion.
- When ballots are rejected, the ostensible reason is usually logistical.
- Their ostensible purpose was to celebrate the religious holiday.
- But in every case the ostensible parallels break down.
- VAD under cover of ostensible protection from vulnerability.
- Apprehended or ostensible bias is not as straightforward.
- Thus you cannot have an ostensible authority based on an ostensible authority.
SEEMING vs OSTENSIBLE: QUESTIONS
- How do you ask a question without it seeming like a question?
- How did Claudius win the will of my most seeming-virtuous queen?
- What is misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms in Romeo and Juliet?
- What runs like a golden thread through all our seeming diversity?
- What does'the will of my most seeming-virtuous queen'mean?
- Can the real owner deny a gift made by an ostensible?
- What are the conditions for a transfer by ostensible owner?
- When is there no ostensible authority to communicate agreement?
- When does an employee have apparent or ostensible authority?
- What is the relation between benamidar and ostensible owner?