seeminglyadverb
uk/ˈsiː.mɪŋ.li/us/ˈsiː.mɪŋ.li/C1 appearing to be something, especially when this is not true:
He remains confident and seemingly untroubled by his recent problems.
according to the facts that you know:
The factory closure is seemingly inevitable.
Seemingly, she's gone to live with another man.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Seeming and purporting to be
- apparent
- as if/though idiom
- by the look(s) of things idiom
- come
- come across
- come over
- face
- ostensible
- outward
- paper
- persona
- prima facie
- purport
- putative
- so-called
- sound
- supposed
- supposedly
- verisimilitude
- you can't judge a book by its cover idiom
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