Ulterior

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ulterior \Ul*te"ri*or\, n.
     Ulterior side or part. [R.] --Coleridge.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  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.
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     2. Further; remoter; more distant; succeeding; as, ulterior
        demands or propositions; ulterior views; what ulterior
        measures will be adopted is uncertain.
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     {Ulterior motive}, {Ulterior object} or {Ulterior aim}, a
        motive, object or aim beyond that which is avowed.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]
       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; "the future president
          entered college at the age of 16"; "awaiting future
          actions on the bill"; "later developments"; "without
          ulterior argument" [syn: {future(a)}, {later(a)}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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