on the face of it

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on the face of it Definition

• (r) 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

on the face of it Synonyms

• apparently
• on the face of it
• ostensibly
• seemingly