ulterior

  • (s) 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
    subterranean, subterraneous,
  • (s) 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
  • (s) coming at a subsequent time or stage
    • without ulterior argument
    • the mood posterior to
    later, posterior,

Synonyms

subterranean subterraneous later posterior

Words of close approximity

ulteriority ulteriorly