Usually means: Hidden motive beyond the obvious.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word ulterior:

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  1. ulterior: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ulterior: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ulterior: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ulterior: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ulterior: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ulterior, ulterior: Wordnik
  7. ulterior: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ulterior: Wiktionary
  9. ulterior: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ulterior: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ulterior: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. ulterior: Dictionary.com
  13. ulterior: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. ulterior: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Ulterior (band): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Ulterior: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. ulterior: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. ulterior: Rhymezone
  19. ulterior, ulterior: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. ulterior: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. ulterior: Free Dictionary
  22. ulterior: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. ulterior: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ulterior: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ulterior: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ulterior: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ulterior: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See ulteriorly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (ulterior)

adjective:  Situated beyond, or on the farther side.
adjective:  Beyond what is obvious or evident.
adjective:  Being intentionally concealed so as to deceive.
adjective:  (archaic) Happening later; subsequent.

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