[attrib.]stated or appearing to be true, but not necessarily so 诡称的;貌似真实的 the real dispute which lay behind the ostensible complaint. 在表面上抱怨背后的真实争辩。
派生 ostensibility noun 语源
mid 18th cent.: from French, from medieval Latin ostensibilis from Latin ostens- 'stretched out to view', from the verb ostendere, from ob- 'in view of' + tendere 'to stretch'