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ostensive
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os·ten·sive  (-stnsv)
adj.
Seeming or professed; ostensible.
[Late Latin ostnsvus, from Latin ostnsus, past participle of ostendere, to show; see ostensible.]
os·tensive·ly adv.
ostensive
Adjective
directly showing or pointing out: he gave ostensive definitions to things [Latin ostendere to show]
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Adj.1.ostensive - manifestly demonstrative
instructive, informative - serving to instruct or enlighten or inform
2.ostensive - represented or appearing as such; pretended; "His ostensible purpose was charity, his real goal popularity"
ostensible
counterfeit, imitative - not genuine; imitating something superior; "counterfeit emotion"; "counterfeit money"; "counterfeit works of art"; "a counterfeit prince"
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