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ulterior
adjective
1 ulterior
Lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed):
— Looked too closely for an ulterior purpose in all knowledge.
synonyms: subterranean, subterraneous.
Roget 121:
future,
to come;
coming
etc.
(impending)
152;
next,
near;
close at hand;
eventual,
ulterior;
in prospect
etc.
(expectation)
507.
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Roget 196:
distant;
far off,
far away;
remote,
telescopic,
distal,
wide of;
stretching to
etc.
v.;
yon,
yonder;
ulterior;
transmarine†,
transpontine†,
transatlantic,
transalpine;
tramontane;
ultramontane,
ultramundane†;
hyperborean,
antipodean;
inaccessible,
out of the way;
unapproached†,
unapproachable;
incontiguous†.
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Roget 57:
extraneous,
foreign,
alien,
ulterior;
tramontane,
ultramontane.
excluded
etc.
55;
inadmissible;
exceptional.
2 ulterior
Beyond or outside an area of immediate interest; remote.
3 ulterior
Coming at a subsequent time or stage:
— Without ulterior argument.
synonyms: later, posterior.
Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
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