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ulterior
What does ulterior mean?
ulterior (adjective): lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed).
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use ulterior in a sentence?
- I have no ulterior motives. (Tatoeba sentence #6640380 by Hybrid, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce ulterior?
/ʌlˈtɪɚiɚ/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does ulterior come from?
From Latin ulterior (“further, more distant”), from ulter (“that is beyond”) + -ior (“more”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “ulterior” mean?
lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed)
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having a pH less than 7, or being sour, or having the strength to neutralize alkalis, or turning a litmus paper red
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feeling a sense of spinning in the head, causing a perception of unsteadiness and being about to fall down; dizzy
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meriting condemnation, censure or blame, especially as something wrong, harmful or injurious; blameworthy, guilty
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