on the face of it

Adverb
  1. From appearances alone (synset 400040353)
    "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"; "on the face of it the problem seems minor"
    same as: apparently, ostensibly, seemingly

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