Ulterior Definition

ŭl-tîrē-ər
adjective
Lying beyond or on the farther side.
Webster's New World
Further; more remote; esp., beyond what is expressed, implied, or evident; undisclosed.
An ulterior motive.
Webster's New World
Later, subsequent, or future.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Ulterior

  • Latin farther comparative of *ulter on the other side al-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin ulterior, comparative of ulter (“that is beyond").

    From Wiktionary

Ulterior Sentence Examples

  • Whatever Austrias ulterior views may have been, Bismarck certainly from the first had but one aim before him.

  • C. Fuller, who succeeded Sir Donald Stewart as chief commissioner early in 1905, was able to report in the following year that among the Ashanti suspicion of the "white man's" ulterior motives was speedily losing ground.

  • Roman Spain.The Romans divided Spain into two spheres of administration (provinciae), Hither or Citerior, that is the northern districts which were nearer to Italy, and Repubnesn Further or Ulterior, the south.

  • Today we are less happy with such ulterior purposes.

  • Thus, in the full anticipation of added renown, and without any misgiving as to ulterior consequences, Galileo set himself, on his return to Florence, to complete his famous but ill-starred work, the Dialogo dei due massimi sistemi del mondo.

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Words Starting With

UULULT

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RORIOR

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