English Dictionary

ulterior

IPA（発音記号）

/ʌlˈtɪə.ɹɪə/

形容詞

比較不可 古語

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

日本語の意味

物理的にさらに先にある、または向こう側に位置する / 明らかでない、目に見えない奥にある / 意図的に隠され、欺くための / （古語）後に起こる、後続の

Beyond the river lay an ulterior meadow where wildflowers grew untouched.

川の向こう側には、野生の花が手つかずで咲く牧草地が広がっていた。

意味（1）

Situated beyond, or on the farther side.

It [Spain] was divided by the Romans into two provinces, Citeriour and Ulteriour, nearer and farther, that is, from Rome.

意味（2）

Beyond what is obvious or evident.

Let a watch be contrived and constructed ever so ingeniously: be its parts ever so many, ever so complicated, ever so finely wrought, or artificially put together, it cannot go without a weight or spring, that is, without a force independent of, and ulteriour to, its mechanism.

意味（3）

Being intentionally concealed so as to deceive.

Motives, of course, may be mixed; but this only means that a man aims at a variety of goals by means of the same course of action. Similarly a man may have a strong motive or a weak one, an ulterior motive or an ostensible one.

意味（4）

(archaic) Happening later; subsequent.

Their noble and grand Mightineſſes have thereby not only ſatisfied the general wiſhes of the greateſt and beſt part of the inhabitants of this province, but they have laid the foundations of ulteriour alliances and correſpondencies of friendſhip and of good underſtanding with the United States of America, which promiſe new life to the languiſhing ſtate of our commerce, navigation, and manufactures.