ulterior

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Situated beyond, or on the farther side.

   • It [Spain] was divided by the Romans into two provinces, Citeriour and Ulteriour, nearer and farther, that is, from Rome.
2. 2

   Beyond what is obvious or evident.

   • 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.
3. 3

   Being intentionally concealed so as to deceive.

   • 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.
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   1. 4

      Happening later

      Happening later; subsequent.

      • A rather deep red coloration, which appears by the action of the first bubbles of chlorine, but which soon disappears by the ulterior action of this gas: not turbid.
      • He had taken himself to task more than once, and had promised himself that he would not become a sporting parson. Indeed, where would be his hopes of ulterior promotion, if he allowed himself to degenerate so far as that?

The neighborhood

• neighborultimate
• neighborultra
• neighborultra-