ulterior
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
ulterior
adj 1: lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed
(especially being kept in the background or deliberately
concealed); "subterranean motives for murder"; "looked
too closely for an ulterior purpose in all knowledge"-
Bertrand Russell [syn: {subterranean}, {subterraneous},
{ulterior}]
2: beyond or outside an area of immediate interest; remote; "a
suggestion ulterior to the present discussion";
"without...any purpose, immediate or ulterior"- G.B.Shaw
3: coming at a subsequent time or stage; "without ulterior
argument"; "the mood posterior to" [syn: {later(a)},
{ulterior}, {posterior}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Ulterior \Ul*te"ri*or\, a. [L., comp. of ultra, ultro, beyond,
on the other side, properly cases of an old adjective, formed
with a comparative suffix, which is akin to OL. uls beyond,
L. olim formerly, hereafter, orig., at that time, ille that,
OL. olle, ollus. Cf. {Outrage}.]
1. Situated beyond, or on the farther side; thither; --
correlative with hither.
[1913 Webster]
2. Further; remoter; more distant; succeeding; as, ulterior
demands or propositions; ulterior views; what ulterior
measures will be adopted is uncertain.
[1913 Webster]
{Ulterior motive}, {Ulterior object} or {Ulterior aim}, a
motive, object or aim beyond that which is avowed.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
99 Moby Thesaurus words for "ulterior":
accessory, additional, alien, ambiguous, ancillary, another,
arcane, auxiliary, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, beyond, buried,
cabalistic, censored, classified, close, closed, collateral,
concealed, contributory, covert, cryptic, dark, enigmatic,
equivocal, esoteric, exotic, exterior, external, extra, extraneous,
extraterrestrial, extrinsic, farther, foreign, foreign-born, fresh,
further, guarded, hermetic, hidden, hush-hush, intrusive, latent,
more, more distant, mysterious, new, obscure, obscured, occult,
other, outland, outlandish, outside, personal, plus, private,
privy, remote, remoter, restricted, secret, shrouded, smothered,
spare, stifled, strange, supernumerary, supplemental,
supplementary, suppressed, surplus, surreptitious, thither,
top secret, unbreatheable, under cover, under security,
under wraps, underhanded, underlying, undisclosable, undisclosed,
undivulgable, undivulged, unearthly, unexpressed, unrevealable,
unrevealed, unspoken, untellable, untold, unutterable, unuttered,
unwhisperable, yon, yonder
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