Hyphenation of ostensible

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

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Definitions of ostensible:

1.	Appearing as such but not necessarily so For all his apparent wealth he had no money to pay the rent The committee investigated some apparent discrepancies The ostensible truth of their theories His seeming honesty
2.	Represented or appearing as such Pretended His ostensible purpose was charity
3.	His real goal popularity

Synonyms of ostensible:

adj	apparent, seeming, superficial
adj	ostensive, counterfeit, imitative

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.