Dictionary Entry
ulterior
ulterior is a 8-letter English word with 6 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Situated beyond, or on the farther side; thither; -- correlative with hither. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Situated beyond, or on the farther side; thither; -- correlative with hither.
- 2adjective
Further; remoter; more distant; succeeding; as, ulterior demands or propositions; ulterior views; what ulterior measures will be adopted is uncertain.
- 3noun
Ulterior side or part.
- 4adjective
coming at a subsequent time or stage
"without ulterior argument"
"the mood posterior to"
- 5adjective
beyond or outside an area of immediate interest; remote- G.B.Shaw
"a suggestion ulterior to the present discussion"
"without...any purpose, immediate or ulterior"
- 6adjective
lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed)- Bertrand Russell
"subterranean motives for murder"
"looked too closely for an ulterior purpose in all knowledge"
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