seemingly

• "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"

Synonyms

• apparentlyfrom appearances alone; unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly')
• ostensiblyfrom appearances alone
• on the face of itfrom appearances alone