Ulterior

Quick meaning: Ulterior is an adjective meaning Situated beyond, or on the farther side.

Meaning

Situated beyond, or on the farther side.

More Meanings

1. Beyond what is obvious or evident.
2. Being intentionally concealed so as to deceive.
3. (archaic) Happening later; subsequent.

Example Sentences

It [Spain] was divided by the Romans into two provinces, Citeriour and Ulteriour, nearer and farther, that is, from Rome.

Other aestheticians have said that aesthetic contemplation is nothing more than sustained, concentrated attention to an object in which there is no ulterior purpose and the attention is an end in itself.

Motives, of course, may be mixed; but this only means that a man aims at a variety of goals by means of the same course of action. Similarly a man may have a strong motive or a weak one, an ulterior motive or an ostensible one.

The first questions in science are questions of fact, questions immediately answerable on the basis of observation. Beyond such questions are others, ulterior questions which are more interesting to us and which motivate the questions of fact.

Word Forms

• ulteriour

Synonyms for ulterior

Depending on context, synonyms include subsequent, distant, future, subterranean, later, covert.

Antonyms for ulterior

Common opposites include citerior, ostensible, prior.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include distant, later, subsequent, future, covert, subterranean.

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