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ulterior 音標拼音: [əlt'ɪriɚ] a. 在那邊的,將來的,隱蔽的 在那邊的,將來的,隱蔽的 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 [ synonym: { subterranean}, { subterraneous}, { ulterior}] 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; " without ulterior argument"; " the mood posterior to" [ synonym: { later( a)}, { ulterior}, { posterior}] 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] 99 Moby Thesaurus words for " ulterior": 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
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