Ulterior

Definition: Ulterior

Ulterior

Adjective

1. Lying beneath what is revealed or avowed, especially being deliberately concealed; "subterranean motives for murder"; "looked too closely for an ulterior purpose in all knowledge"- Bertrand Russell.

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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "ulterior" was first used: 1646. (references)

Synonyms: Ulterior

Distance

Adjective: distant; far off, far away; remote, telescopic, distal, wide of; stretching to; Verb: yon, yonder; ulterior; transmarine, transpontine, transatlantic, transalpine; tramontane; ultramontane, ultramundane; hyperborean, antipodean; inaccessible, out of the way; unapproached, unapproachable; incontiguous.

Extraneousness

Adjective: extraneous, foreign, alien, ulterior; tramontane, ultramontane.

Futurity

Adjective: future, to come; coming; (impending); next, near; close at hand; eventual, ulterior; in prospect; (expectation).

Crosswords: Ulterior

Latin (further, more distant, ulterior), Portuguese (after, further, subsequent, ulterior), Romanian (after, afterwards, following, further, future, posterior, subsequent, subsequently, ulterior), Spanish (farther, later, subsequent, ulterior).

Even caring has an ulterior motive. (Nell; writing credit: William Nicholson)

Ulterior Motives (1992)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Ulterior Motive [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

• Ulterior Motives (reference)

• Ulterior Motives [DOWNLOAD: MICROSOFT READER] (reference)

• Ulterior Motives: The Killing and Dark Legacy of Tycoon Henry Kyle (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Ulterior Motives (reference)

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Civil Liberties

China

In February, Zhang Xinying, vice chairman of the Chinese Society of Religious Studies, said that the rise of "cults" was due to the frequent abuse of the concept of "religious freedom" by "some people with ulterior motives." Senior leaders made similar comments, in the context of condemning FLG. The Government teaches atheism in schools. (references)

Peru

There were indications that Cable Magico may have had ulterior political and financial motives for abruptly canceling its contract with CCN. On April 12, Telefonica published an advertisement saying that its cable system, Cable Magico, was canceling the frequency used by cable channel CCN because owner Manuel Ulloa didn't inform it of his transfer of shares to Vicente Silva, who was representing the Minister of Defense. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "ulterior": ulterior aim ♦ ulterior motive ♦ ulterior motives ♦ ulterior object ♦ ulterior objects ♦ ulterior purpose. Additional references.

Albanian

i mëvonshëm (after, puisne), i mëtejshëm (further, new), i mëpasshëm (posterior). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تال (after, next, posterior, sequent, subsequent), ‏خفي (covert, cryptic, disguised, hidden, invisible, mysterious, occult, secret, stealthy, surreptitious, unseen, veiled), ‏أبعد (alien, alienate, bounce, deport, distance, drive away, drive out, estrange, exclude, far, farther, hold off, oust, out of the way, outmost, preclude, relegate, send, send packing, stave off, supplant, take away, throw out, transport, ultimate, warn off). (various references)

Bulgarian 

скрит (cagey, cagy, clandestine, close, covert, delitescent, dormant, furtive, hidden, implicit, implied, insidious, latent, occult, potential, private, privy, recondite, secret, sneaking, snug, underlying), оттатъшен (far, further, off), отвъден (extra-mundane, far), отдалечен (back, distant, far, far off, faraway, inland, off, out, out of the way, outlandish, outlying, remote, removed, unget-at-able), неясен (abstruse, ambiguous, amorphous, blear, bleary, confused, crepuscular, dark, doubtful, dreamy, dusk, fuzzy, hazy, illegible, inarticulate, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indistinct, intangible, involved, inward, loose, misty, muddy, muzzy, nebulous, obscure, pale, recondite, shadowy, soft, transcendental, unclear, undecided, unformed, vague, vapory, vapoury, wan, woolly), бъдещ (coming, elect, forward, future, prospective, unborn, upcoming), по-късен (after, downward, posterior, subsequent), по-нататъшен (farther, further). (various references)

Chinese 

�"较遥远 (Remoter). (various references)

Czech

vedlejší (accessory, accidental, adjoining, ancillary, by, collateral, extraneous, immaterial, incidental, minor, next, next door, off, secondary, subordinate, subsidiary, supporting), sekundární (minor, secondary), pozdìjší (later, latter, posterior). (various references)

Farsi 

نهان (Covert, Recondite, Secret, Stealth), انطرف (Without, Yonder), دردرجخ دوم اهمیت , بعدی (Further, Future, Subsequent). (various references)

Finnish

taka-ajatus (ulterior thought). (various references)

French

ultérieur, secret, dissimulé, arrière. (various references)

German

jenseitig (opposite, other, otherworld, thithertho). (various references)

Greek 

κρύφιοσ (covert, cryptical, lurking, stealthy, surreptitious, underhand, underhanded), απώτεροσ (farther, further, remoter). (various references)

Hebrew 

אחורי (back, backward, hind, posterior, rear), כמוס (concealed, hidden, inscrutable, latent, occult, secret). (various references)

Hungarian

utóbbi (after, late, latter). (various references)

Italian

ulteriore (further, later), successivo (after, below, following, subsequent, succeeding, successive), nascosto (blind, cached, covert, cryptic, hidden, occult, sneaking, stealthy, underhand, unseen). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

魂胆 (intrigue, plot, scheme, secret design, soul, ulterior motive), 他意 (another intention, double-mindedness, fickleness, ill will, malice, secret purpose, ulterior motive), 他心 (double-mindedness, fickleness, ill will, other intention, secret purpose, ulterior motive), 一物 (a plot, a thing, an article, secret intention, ulterior motive). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たし�" (double-mindedness, fickleness, ill will, other intention, secret purpose, ulterior motive), たい (against, another intention, band, be crowned with, body, company, complying with, corps, double-mindedness, fickleness, form, ill will, image counter, keeping in mind, malice, obedience, object, opposition, party, ratio, reality, receive, schnapper, sea bream, secret purpose, snapper, style, substance, the body, ulterior motive, versus), いちぶつ (a plot, a thing, an article, excellent person, secret intention, superb article, ulterior motive), いちもつ (a plot, a thing, an article, excellent animal, secret intention, ulterior motive), �"�"た�" (intrigue, plot, scheme, secret design, soul, ulterior motive). (various references)

Manx

ny sodjey noon (ulteriorly). (various references)

Pig Latin

eriorultay

Portuguese

ulterior (after, further, subsequent), posterior (after, aftermost, back, hind, hinder, hindmost, posterior, puisne, rear), oculto (cryptic, deep, disingenuous, inner, latent, mystical, occult, offscreen, perdu, privy, recondite, secret, sneaking, underlying, unseen), inconfessado, escondido (close, furtive, hidden, hideaway, hush-hush, lam, offscreen, privy, secret, stealthy). (various references)

Romanian

ulterior (after, afterwards, following, further, future, posterior, subsequent, subsequently), secret (arcanum, close, confidential, cover, covertly, hidden, hugger mugger, internal, mysterious, mystery, occult, private, privy, quiet, reticence, secrecy, secret, secretly, underground, undisclosed, unspoken, untold), ascuns (abstruse, backstairs, blind, cagey, close, concealed, covert, cryptic, dark, furtive, hidden, masked, mystic, occult, postern, privy, q.t., quiet, recondite, secluded, secret, secretive, self contained, sneaking, stealthy, sunken, uncommunicative, underground, underhand, undiscovered). (various references)

Russian 

дальнейший (farther, further, remotest). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zadnji (after, back, hidden, hinder, last, latest, rear, rearward, reversing), sledeći (following, next, second, sequent, sequential, subsequent, succeeding), s one strane (trans), prikriven (concealed, covert), na drugoj strani (overleaf, side: on the other side of). (various references)

Spanish

ulterior (farther, later, subsequent). (various references)

Swedish

framtida (forward, future, intended, prospective, To-be, unborn), bortre (far, farther, further, off). (various references)

Turkish

uzaktaki (farther, out), sonraki (after, ensuing, follow up, following, latter, next, other, post-, posterior, sequential, subsequent), gizli (arcane, back door, blind, camera, clandestine, classified, closet, concealed, confidential, covert, cryptic, cryptical, crypto-, disguised, esoteric, furtive, hidden, hole-and-corner, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hush hush, inner, intimate, latent, masked, occult, perdu, Perdue, private, privy, quiet, restricted, sealed, secluded, secret, secretly, slinky, sneaking, sneakingly, sneaky, snug, stealthy, sub rosa, submerged, submersed, subterranean, subterraneous, surreptitious, under cover, underarm, undercover, underground, underhand, underhanded, undisclosed, unsearchable, unseen), ötedeki (farther, further, yon, yonder). (various references)

Ukrainian

прихований (arcane, blind, bosomed, close, closet, concealed, covert, cryptic, delitescent, furtive, glossy, hideaway, latent, obscure, obumbrate, occulted, privy, secret, stealthy, underneath, veiled), потойбічний (non-natural, otherworldly), подальший (successive). (various references)

Vietnamese 

về sau; sau, tương lai kín đáo, không nói ra (tacit, unsaid). (various references)

ulterior. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "ulterior": ulteriorly. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Ulterior" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aliterioi, alterior, ellerdor, Ludermir, Lureiro, Ulderico, ulteriod, uterio. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: outlier.

-2 letters: loiter, outlie, rioter, router, rulier, rutile, toiler, tourer.

-3 letters: lirot, liter, litre, louie, lurer, oiler, oriel, ourie, outer, outre, relit, reoil, retro, route, ruler, teloi, tiler, toile, trier, triol, truer, uteri, utile.

-4 letters: etui, euro, lier, lieu, lire, lite, litu, lore, loti, lour, lout, lure, lute, orle, riel, rile, riot, rite, roil.

+1 letter: courtlier.

+2 letters: elutriator, irresolute, ulteriorly.

+3 letters: corruptible, elutriators, fluorimeter, fluorimetry, protrusible, terricolous.

+4 letters: corruptively, equilibrator, floriculture, fluorimeters, fluorimetric, fluorometric, grossularite, horticulture, interlobular, interlocutor, irresolutely, irresolution, microculture, protrusively, reregulation, roisterously, ultraserious, unrhetorical.

+5 letters: arboriculture, equilibrators, equilibratory, expurgatorial, floricultures, fluorimetries, fluorometries, grossularites, gubernatorial, horticultures, incorruptible, interlocutors, interlocutory, interneuronal, irresolutions, meritoriously, microcultures, oracularities, perfunctorily, prerevolution, prosecutorial, proventriculi, recirculation, reformulating, reformulation, relubrication, reregulations, revolutionary, temerariously, tetrafluoride, turboelectric.