Hyphenation of OSTENSIBLY

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word OSTENSIBLY? This word can be hyphenated and contains 4 syllables as shown below.

OS-TEN-SI-BLY

Definitions of OSTENSIBLY:

1.	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 of it the problem seems minor

Synonyms of OSTENSIBLY:

adv	apparently, seemingly, on the face of it

Last hyphenations of this language

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