ulterior - 14 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | ulterior |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | secret; pertaining to a hidden goal |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, concealed, covert, cryptic, dark, enigmatic, equivocal, guarded, hidden, implied, obscure, personal, privy, remote, secondary, selfish, under wraps*, undisclosed, unexpressed, unsaid, buried, obscured, shrouded, under cover, undivulged |
| Antonyms: | known, overt, public, expressed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | concealed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hidden, secret |
| Synonyms: | camouflaged, covered, covert, guarded, hush-hush*, incognito, inconspicuous, masked, obscure, planted, privy, recondite, ulterior, under wraps*, unseen, veiled, buried, cached, covered up, enshrouded, holed up, hushed up, incog, obscured, on the Q. T., perdu, put in the hole, screened, secreted, shrouded, stashed, tucked away |
| Antonyms: | bare, clear, exposed, obvious, open, plain, shown, uncovered, disclosed, revealed, told |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | covert |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clandestine, underhanded |
| Synonyms: | camouflaged, cloaked, concealed, disguised, furtive, hidden, hush-hush*, incognito, masked, private, privy, secret, stealthy, sub rosa, surreptitious, ulterior, under wraps*, undercover, underhand, unsuspected, veiled, QT, buried, dissembled, incog, obscured, shrouded, under-the-table |
| Notes: | covert (concealed, covered, hidden) is the opposite of overt (apparent, open to view, plain, public) |
| Antonyms: | aboveboard, candid, frank, honest, open, overt, public, unconcealed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | eventual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | future, concluding |
| Synonyms: | conditional, consequent, contingent, dependent, ending, ensuing, final, hindmost, indirect, inevitable, last, later, latter, overall, possible, prospective, secondary, terminal, ulterior, ultimate, vicarious, closing, down the pike, down the road, endmost, in the cards, resulting, succeeding |
| Antonyms: | past |
| Main Entry: | future |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | to come; expected |
| Synonyms: | approaching, booked, coming, destined, eventual, fated, final, forthcoming, imminent, impending, inevitable, later, likely, near, next, planned, prospective, subsequent, ulterior, ultimate, unborn, up, budgeted, close at hand, coming up, down the line, down the pike, down the road, from here in, from here on, from here to eternity, from now on in, in the cards, in the course of time, in the offing, just around the corner, looked toward, scheduled, to be, unfolding |
| Antonyms: | past |
| Main Entry: | hidden |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unseen, secret |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, clandestine, cloaked, close, concealed, covered, covert, cryptic, dark, disguised, esoteric, hermetic, in the dark, indiscernible, invisible, latent, masked, mysterious, mystic, mystical, obscure, occult, private, recondite, secluded, shadowy, surreptitious, ulterior, undercover, underground, undisclosed, unknown, veiled, withheld, QT, buried, clouded, eclipsed, hermetical, imperceivable, out of view, screened, sequestered, shrouded, undetected, unexposed, unrevealed |
| Antonyms: | bare, exhibited, exposed, open, out, showing, uncovered, seen |
| Main Entry: | invisible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unable to be seen; hidden |
| Synonyms: | concealed, covert, deceptive, disguised, ethereal, gaseous, ghostly, ideal, impalpable, imperceptible, inconspicuous, indiscernible, infinitesimal, insensible, intangible, masked, microscopic, obliterated, occult, out of sight, supernatural, ulterior, undisclosed, unreal, unseen, vaporous, veiled, imponderable, inappreciable, not in sight, obscured, perdu, screened, unapparent, ungraspable, unnoticeable, unobservable, unperceivable, unseeable, unviewable, wraithlike |
| Antonyms: | obvious, visible, detectable, seen |
| Main Entry: | last |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | final; newest |
| Synonyms: | antipodal, bitter end, conclusive, crowning, curtains*, definitive, end, ending, eventual, extreme, far, farthest, furthest, hindmost, lag, latest, least, lowest, once and for all*, outermost, supreme, swan song*, terminal, ulterior, ultimate, utmost, uttermost, aftermost, at the end, climactic, closing, concluding, determinate, determinative, endwise, far-off, finishing, meanest, most recent, rearmost, remotest |
| Antonyms: | beginning, first, front, initial, introductory, oldest, primary, starting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | later |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | coming after |
| Synonyms: | ensuing, following, next, posterior, proximate, subsequent, ulterior, downstream, more recent, postliminary, subsequential, succeeding |
| Antonyms: | before, earlier |
| Main Entry: | privy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | secret |
| Synonyms: | concealed, confidential, covert, hidden, hush-hush*, off the record*, personal, private, separate, ulterior, buried, obscured, shrouded |
| Antonyms: | known, public, revealed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | alien |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
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alien, alienigenate, allochthonous, exaliotriote, exceptional, excluded, extraneous, foreign, fremd, heterochthonous, inadmissible, tramontane, ulterior, ultramontane
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| Main Entry: | future |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
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| Main Entry: | position |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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erect, lateral, outside, abaxial, abutting, adaxial, adjacent, adjoining, advance, akimbo, aknee, ambient, anterior, antipodal, apical, apposed, arrayed, at hand, axial, back, bordering, cater, central, centric, chirognostic, circumambient, circumferential, circumjacent, close, coaxial, coextensive, coincident, colinear, collateral, collinear, concentric, confocal, consecutive, conterminous, contiguous, convenient, convergent, converse, coplanar, coterminous, covering, crisscross, crossed, deasil, decussate, deep, detached, discontinuous, discrete, distal, distant, distinct, dorsal, dorsolateral, encircling, enclosed, enclosing, encompassing, enveloping, equidistant, equitant, even, exterior, external, face, far, farther, farthest, first, flanking, flush, fore, forward, fringe, fronting, gardant, grufeling, guardant, halfway, hanging, hindmost, hithermost, immediate, indoors, infradig, inner, innermost, insessorial, interior, intermediate, interposed, intersecting, interspersed, intervening, inverted, kitty, leeward, levitated, local, long, lower, malposed, medial, median, mid, middle, midway, nearby, next, obverse, one, outdoors, outer, outmost, overlying, padmasana, parallel, pendent, peripheral, perpendicular, plumb, point, port, posterior, prone, prostrate, proximal, proximate, quincunx, rear, reclining, rectilinear, recumbent, remote, retral, ringside, rolled, separate, sinistral, situate, situated, square, starboard, stationary, stoss, suburban, suburbicarian, successive, superior, superjacent, supine, surrounding, suspended, topical, topographical, transverse, ulterior, ultimate, uppermost, ventral, windward, zonal
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| Main Entry: | remoteness |
| Part of Speech: | |
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antipodean, asunder, distal, distant, efferent, far, faraway, hyperborean, inaccessible, incontiguous, out of the way, remote, stretching to, telescopic, tramontane, transalpine, transatlantic, transmarine, transmontane, ulterior, ultramontane, ultramundane, unapproachable, wide of, yon, yonder
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