ostensible
adjective/ɒˈstensəbl/
/ɑːˈstensəbl/
[only before noun] (formal)- seeming or stated to be real or true, when this is perhaps not the case synonym apparent
- The ostensible reason for his absence was illness.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryOstensible is used with these nouns:- reason
Word Originmid 18th cent.: from French, from medieval Latin ostensibilis from Latin ostens- ‘stretched out to view’, from the verb ostendere, from ob- ‘in view of’ + tendere ‘to stretch’.
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