Adverb

• S: (adv) apparently, seemingly, ostensibly, on the face of it (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"
• S: (adv) obviously, evidently, manifestly, patently, apparently, plainly, plain (unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly')) "the answer is obviously wrong"; "she was in bed and evidently in great pain"; "he was manifestly too important to leave off the guest list"; "it is all patently nonsense"; "she has apparently been living here for some time"; "I thought he owned the property, but apparently not"; "You are plainly wrong"; "he is plain stubborn"