seemingly
see·mingly
adverb
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”
Origin
From Middle English semyngly, equivalent to seeming + -ly.
Related words
Pertaining to
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