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ULTERIOR

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Dictionary entry overview: What does ulterior mean?

• ULTERIOR (adjective)
The adjective ULTERIOR has 3 senses:

1. lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed)
2. beyond or outside an area of immediate interest; remote
3. coming at a subsequent time or stage

Familiarity information: ULTERIOR used as an adjective is uncommon.

Dictionary entry details

• ULTERIOR (adjective)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed)

Synonyms:

ulterior; subterranean; subterraneous

Context examples:

subterranean motives for murder / looked too closely for an ulterior purpose in all knowledge

Similar:

covert (secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Beyond or outside an area of immediate interest; remote

Context examples:

a suggestion ulterior to the present discussion / without...any purpose, immediate or ulterior

Similar:

distant (far apart in relevance or relationship)

Sense 3

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Meaning:

Coming at a subsequent time or stage

Synonyms:

later; future; ulterior

Context examples:

the future president entered college at the age of 16 / awaiting future actions on the bill / later developments / without ulterior argument

Similar:

subsequent (following in time or order)

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