adjective
- being beyond what is seen or avowed; intentionally kept concealed: ulterior motives.
- coming at a subsequent time or stage; future; further: ulterior action.
- lying beyond or outside of some specified or understood boundary; more remote: a suggestion ulterior to the purposes of the present discussion.
adjective
- lying beneath or beyond what is revealed, evident, or supposedulterior motives
- succeeding, subsequent, or later
- lying beyond a certain line or point
adj.1640s, from Latin ulterior “more distant, further,” comparative of *ulter “beyond” (see ultra-). The sense in ulterior motives is first attested 1735.