410 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ ɒstˈɛnsəbə͡l], [ ɒstˈɛnsəbə‍l], [ ɒ_s_t_ˈɛ_n_s_ə_b_əl]

Similar words for ostensible:

• all (adjective)
• alleged (adjective)
• alleged, supposed (adjective)
• apparent (adjective)
• believed (adjective)
• deceptive (adjective)
• delusive (adjective)
• demonstrating (adjective)
• false (adjective)
• hallucinatory (adjective)
• illusive (adjective)
• illusory (adjective)
• illusory/illusive (adjective)
• likely (adjective)
• nominal (adjective)
• one-dimensional (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• outward (adjective)
• palpable (adjective)
• pretended (adjective)
• probable (adjective)
• reputed (adjective)
• seeming (adjective)
• so-called (adjective)
• specious (adjective)
• superficial (adjective)
• unreal (adjective)
• counterfeit (noun)
• imitative (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words (noun)

Paraphrases for ostensible

Synonyms for Ostensible:

• adj.

  • all (adjective)
  • ostensible.
  • alleged (adjective)
  • most described,
  • most averred,
  • most purported,
  • more averred,
  • de scribed,
  • more purported,
  • more described,
  • de-scribed.
  • alleged, supposed (adjective)
  • notable,
  • demonstrative,
  • Exhibited,
  • illusive,
  • professed,
  • quasi,
  • illusory,
  • purported,
  • avowed,
  • Colorable.
  • apparent (adjective)
  • most apparent,
  • more semblant,
  • most semblant,
  • most possible.
  • believed (adjective)
  • reputed.
  • deceptive (adjective)
  • delusive.
  • delusive (adjective)
  • visionary.
  • demonstrating (adjective)
  • de-ictic,
  • de ictic,
  • more deictic,
  • most deictic,
  • deictic.
  • false (adjective)
  • Crocker,
  • snide,
  • simulated.
  • hallucinatory (adjective)
  • most phantasm,
  • more phantasm.
  • illusive (adjective)
  • phantasmagoric,
  • hallucinatory,
  • phantasmic,
  • phantasmal.
  • illusory (adjective)
  • most barmecidal,
  • more barmecidal,
  • floatest.
  • illusory/illusive (adjective)
  • most blue sky,
  • un-truer,
  • most illusory,
  • most blue-sky,
  • mis taken,
  • most bluesky,
  • un-truest,
  • fictional,
  • more bluesky,
  • un-true,
  • un true,
  • more blue sky,
  • un truer,
  • un truest,
  • mis-taken,
  • bluesky,
  • more blue-sky.
  • likely (adjective)
  • more oddson,
  • most believeable,
  • most odds on,
  • on verge of,
  • dis-posed,
  • dis posed,
  • most conjecturable,
  • more believeable,
  • more inferable,
  • most supposable,
  • more odds on,
  • most oddson,
  • in habit of,
  • more odds-on,
  • most verisimilar,
  • more verisimilar,
  • most inferable,
  • pre-disposed,
  • up-and-coming,
  • more supposable,
  • oddson,
  • pre disposed,
  • most odds-on,
  • up and coming,
  • imaginable,
  • more conjecturable,
  • pro-nest,
  • more assuring,
  • most assuring.
  • nominal (adjective)
  • more selfstyled,
  • most puppet,
  • self styled,
  • selfstyled,
  • most self styled,
  • most selfstyled,
  • more self styled,
  • in effect only,
  • most self-styled,
  • more self-styled,
  • more puppet.
  • one-dimensional (adjective)
  • onedimensional,
  • one dimensional.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • sophistical,
  • one-dimensional,
  • pretended,
  • in the habit of,
  • Inferable,
  • palpable,
  • Depthless,
  • floater,
  • specious,
  • shoaler,
  • Conjecturable,
  • probable,
  • suppository,
  • believeable,
  • on the verge of,
  • tip of the iceberg,
  • verisimilar,
  • in favor of,
  • likely,
  • in name only,
  • blue-sky,
  • alleged,
  • supposable,
  • quasi-,
  • false,
  • casuistic,
  • apparently right,
  • smattery,
  • apparent,
  • nominal,
  • ostensive,
  • as advertised,
  • Semblant,
  • self-styled,
  • superficial,
  • in the cards,
  • unreal,
  • odds-on,
  • blue sky,
  • odds on,
  • outward,
  • demonstrating,
  • Accounted.
  • outward (adjective)
  • toward the edge,
  • from within,
  • the eye,
  • on the surface.
  • palpable (adjective)
  • un mistakable,
  • un equivocal,
  • un-mistakable,
  • un-equivocal.
  • pretended (adjective)
  • Imposturous,
  • Impostrous,
  • masked.
  • probable (adjective)
  • most likely.
  • reputed (adjective)
  • more regarded,
  • hypo-thetical,
  • re ported,
  • more deemed,
  • most suppository,
  • more reckoned,
  • more gossiped,
  • reported,
  • most deemed,
  • more accounted,
  • re-ported,
  • hypo thetical,
  • most reckoned,
  • more thought,
  • most accounted,
  • most regarded,
  • more suppository,
  • most gossiped,
  • most thought.
  • seeming (adjective)
  • more quasi-,
  • more appearing,
  • most quasi-,
  • most appearing.
  • so-called (adjective)
  • wrongly named,
  • itular,
  • self-named,
  • commonly named.
  • specious (adjective)
  • most casuistic,
  • most sophistical,
  • un-sounder,
  • un-soundest,
  • un sound,
  • un-sound,
  • more casuistic,
  • in accurate,
  • un sounder,
  • more sophistical,
  • in correct.
  • superficial (adjective)
  • flashest,
  • tip iceberg,
  • skin deep,
  • uncritical,
  • most quick-fix,
  • tip of iceberg,
  • skindeep,
  • flasher,
  • in-attentive,
  • most quick fix,
  • un critical,
  • more smattery,
  • more quick fix,
  • most smattery,
  • un-critical,
  • more quick-fix,
  • most depthless,
  • more warped,
  • quickfix,
  • tip the iceberg,
  • shoalest,
  • more depthless,
  • most warped,
  • quick-fix,
  • most quickfix,
  • more quickfix,
  • nodding.
  • unreal (adjective)
  • Non-existent,
  • Storybook,
  • figmental,
  • reachy,
  • notional.

• n.

  •
  • unfounded,
  • speculative,
  • unsubstantiated,
  • apparently,
  • allegedly,
  • seemingly,
  • doubtful,
  • anecdotal.
  •
  • surface,
  • ming.
  • counterfeit (noun)
  • counterfeit.
  • imitative (noun)
  • imitative.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • plausible,
  • manifest,
  • so-called,
  • seeming.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • external.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • bald,
  • supposed,
  • hypocritical,
  • technical,
  • official,
  • well-founded,
  • outside,
  • cursory,
  • Technic,
  • factitious,
  • secular,
  • naked,
  • color,
  • vindication,
  • outer,
  • unconcealed,
  • soi-disant,
  • fantastical,
  • unmistakable,
  • cover,
  • bogus,
  • obvious,
  • conspicuous,
  • undoubted,
  • prominent,
  • suspect,
  • unauthentic,
  • pretext,
  • pronounced,
  • chimeric,
  • in relief,
  • explicit,
  • fictitious,
  • straightforward,
  • overt,
  • appearing,
  • clear-cut,
  • airy,
  • undisguised,
  • purport,
  • illusional,
  • mundane,
  • fantastic,
  • dreamlike,
  • obtrusive,
  • definite,
  • colored,
  • in the foreground,
  • unsubtle,
  • believable,
  • pretension,
  • gloss,
  • striking,
  • noticeable,
  • feasible,
  • erroneous,
  • clear,
  • perspicuous,
  • downright,
  • illusionary,
  • would-be,
  • assumed,
  • temporal,
  • terrestrial,
  • perceptible,
  • Claimed,
  • dreamy,
  • sham,
  • indisputable,
  • gilded,
  • shallow,
  • distinct,
  • make-believe,
  • arrant,
  • to the eye,
  • meretricious,
  • plea,
  • ben trovato,
  • fleshly,
  • fallacious,
  • outstanding,
  • physical,
  • visible,
  • flagrant,
  • bare,
  • apparitional,
  • spurious,
  • supposititious,
  • conceivable,
  • unsubstantial,
  • evident,
  • sensible,
  • autistic,
  • sophistic,
  • notorious,
  • exterior,
  • self-deceptive,
  • staring,
  • delusory,
  • salient,
  • observable,
  • bold,
  • asserted,
  • simple,
  • Bald-faced,
  • spectral,
  • worldly,
  • credible,
  • undeniable,
  • plain,
  • reasonable,
  • hanging out,
  • chimerical,
  • pseudo,
  • subterfuge,
  • pretexted,
  • guise,
  • fake,
  • unmistakeable,
  • carnal,
  • open,
  • delusionary,
  • outlying,
  • direct,
  • indubitable,
  • deceptive,
  • glaring,
  • material,
  • literal,
  • presumptive,
  • formal,
  • pretense,
  • apt,
  • misleading,
  • imaginary,
  • skin-deep,
  • excuse,
  • unquestionable,
  • feigned,
  • unactual,
  • delusional,
  • blatant,
  • non-spiritual,
  • bodily,
  • phantom,
  • Advocation,
  • extrinsic,
  • possible,
  • sticking out,
  • self-explanatory,
  • unhidden,
  • tinsel,
  • inauthentic,
  • express,
  • mock,
  • presumable,
  • presumed,
  • exoteric,
  • self-evident,
  • ostensibly,
  • allegation,
  • misnamed,
  • in evidence,
  • patent,
  • pretend,
  • putative.

Paraphrases for Ostensible:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    apparent.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    blatant, conspicuous, evident, manifest, obvious, overt, seeming, superficial, visible.