Associations to the word «Seemingly»

Wiktionary

SEEMINGLY, adverb. To appearances; apparently.
SEEMINGLY, adverb. In a seemly manner; decorously; with propriety.

Dictionary definition

SEEMINGLY, adverb. 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".

Wise words

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley