| 单词 | ulterior |
| 释义 | ulterior (once / 4659 pages) adj An ulterior interest, argument, or revelation is one you try to keep hidden, like your ulterior motive for weeding your grandmother's garden is to have a conversation with your crush — and Grandma's neighbor — who happens to be outside, too. The adjective ulterior is a Latin word which means “more distant” or “future.” Something that is ulterior may lay the groundwork for what comes later, like a new friend who hangs out with you at your house but whose ulterior motive is to date one of your siblings, or the incredible popularity of a series of novels set in a real place having the ulterior consequences of that place becoming a tourist destination. WORD FAMILYulterior: ulteriority, ulteriorly USAGE EXAMPLESThe scoreboards of prestige were ostensibly built to guide those conversations, but their ulterior motive is to end them. Washington Post(Dec 22, 2016) Some people in Myanmar sense ulterior motives for the government’s rule change. Wall Street Journal(Dec 21, 2016) He or she has ulterior motives, and is hiding the truth in order to advance an agenda or to signal moral superiority. The Guardian(Nov 30, 2016) 1adj lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed) "looked too closely for an ulterior purpose in all knowledge"- Bertrand Russell Syn subterranean, subterraneous covert secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed 2adj 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 Syn distant, remote far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship 3adj coming at a subsequent time or stage without ulterior argument Syn later, posterior subsequent following in time or order |
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