Synonyms for ulterior
ʌlˈtɪər i ərul·te·ri·or

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1. ulterior

   Synonyms:
   further, remote, more distant, remoter, succeeding, beyond

   Antonyms:
   immediate, present, prior, hither

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1. subterranean, subterraneous, ulterioradjective

   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

   Synonyms:
   later(a), subterraneous, posterior, subterranean

   Antonyms:
   antecedent, overt, close, open

2. ulterioradjective

   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

   Synonyms:
   later(a), subterraneous, posterior, subterranean

   Antonyms:
   overt, close, antecedent, open

3. later(a), ulterior, posterioradjective

   coming at a subsequent time or stage

   "without ulterior argument"; "the mood posterior to"

   Antonyms:
   open, close, antecedent, overt

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1. ulterioradjective

   Synonyms:
   further, remoter, more distant

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1. Jason Chaffetz:

   After more than 1,500 nights away from my home, it is time. I may run again for public office, but not in 2018, for those that would speculate otherwise, let me be clear that I have no ulterior motives. I am healthy. I am confident I would continue to be re-elected by large margins. I have the full support of Speaker (Paul) Ryan to continue as Chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee. That said, I have made a personal decision to return to the private sector.

2. Police Sanjeev Marik:

   This heinous act is done because of the (incorrect) beliefs of people and many of these beliefs often have ulterior motives behind them.

3. Jason Chaffetz:

   For those that would speculate otherwise, let me be clear that I have no ulterior motives. I am healthy. I am confident I would continue to be re-elected by large margins. I have the full support of Speaker Ryan to continue as Chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee. That said, I have made a personal decision to return to the private sector.

4. Paul Pelletier:

   The potential for a postal employee to not do his job and throw away ballots for whatever reason -- a non-partisan reason -- there's never been a prohibition against arresting them to send a message to all postal employees that you can't impact the election, why now ? Given what happened in Pittsburgh my suspicion is that there's a political ulterior motive.

5. Henry Thomas Buckle:

   If you can impress any man with an absorbing conviction of the supreme importance of some moral or religious doctrine if you can make him believe that those who reject that doctrine are doomed to eternal perdition if you then give that man power, and by means of his ignorance blind him to the ulterior consequences of his own act,-he will infallibly persecute those who deny his doctrine.