ostensible
英 [?'stens?b(?)l]
美[ɑ'st?ns?bl]
- adj. 表面的；假裝的
英英釋意
- 1. appearing as such but not necessarily so;
- "for all his apparent wealth he had no money to pay the rent"
- "the committee investigated some apparent discrepancies"
- "the ostensible truth of their theories"
- "his seeming honesty"
- 2. represented or appearing as such; pretended;
- "His ostensible purpose was charity, his real goal popularity"