ulterior

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

adjective

1. coming at a subsequent time or stage
- without ulterior argument
- the mood posterior to
• Syn:
later, posterior
• Similar to:
subsequent
2. 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
• Syn:
subterranean, subterraneous
• Similar to:
covert
3. 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
• Similar to:
distant, remote

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  later(a), posterior, subterranean, subterraneous