Words and phrases that have a meaning related to ostensible: (136 results)
Often used in the same context:
putative, unstated, avowed, obvious, indubitable, unwonted, sole, ultimate, latter, shameless, tangential, monomaniacal, undeniable, mere, presumable, aforementioned, singular, erstwhile, ersatz, inarguable, apparent, main, overarching, worthier, unabashed, phantasmal, undisguised, ulterior, hapless, unappeasable, conspicuous, nefariousness, overriding, chimerical, aggrandizing, twofold, sedulous, genuine, baldfaced, purported, du jour, terminological, pseudo, fatuous, misbegotten, risible, seriocomic, titular, justificatory, ideological, loathsome, bona fide, feckless, casus belli, implacable, bromidic, grand guignol, ostensive, sophoclean, specious, unmitigated, unspoken, obligatory, delusory, unconcealed, inexplicable, unquestionable, originary, demoniacal, ideational, especial, lunkheaded, unimpeachable, beethovenian, maidenly, mealymouthed, sub rosa, dunderheaded, wilsonian, overt, idee fixe, dastard, bathetic, unwitting, ignoble, inescapable, unmentioned, onanistic, nietzschean, praetorian, unctuous, thickheaded, maleficent, implicit, benthamite, incidental, adamantine, perverse, ineluctable, hackneyed, vacuous, unarticulated, random, belligerent, changing, controlling, cooperative, deserving, detachments, discrete, encouragement, episcopal, free, governing, hostile, liberal, local, misbehaviour, mischief, moderate, prognostic, real, paramount, legitimate, chief, principal, prime, assignable, weightier, allimportant, cipal, primary
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Also try:counterfeit, imitative, seeming, superficial
— Nouns for ostensible: purpose, reason, object, cause, subject, reasons, motive, authority, aim, ground, goal, more...
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