Found 2 items, similar to ulterior.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: ulterior 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)]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Ulterior 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] Ulterior \Ul*te"ri*or\, n. Ulterior side or part. [R.] --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]