Ostensive

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Seeming or professed; ostensible.
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  • adj. Apparently true, but not necessarily; ostensible
  • adj. Clearly demonstrative.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Showing; exhibiting.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Showing; betokening.
  • Setting forth a general principle by virtue of which a proposition must be true. The old logicians supposed all strict proof to be either of this nature or else apagogic.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. represented or appearing as such; pretended
  • adj. manifestly demonstrative
    • Equivalent
    imitative    counterfeit    instructive    informative   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    showing    exhibiting   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    microstructural    official    physico-theological    trigonometrical    straight-edged   
     
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