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on the face of it

adverb

from appearances alone (Freq. 1)
- 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 of it the problem seems minor
• Syn:
apparently, seemingly, ostensibly
• Derived from adjective:
ostensible (for: ostensibly), seeming (for: seemingly), apparent (for: apparently)