Synonyms of adv on_the_face_of_it

1 sense of on the face of it

Sense 1
apparently, seemingly, ostensibly, on the face of it -- (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")