Lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed):
— Looked too closely for an ulterior purpose in all knowledge.

synoniemen: subterranean, subterraneous.

Roget 121: future, to come; coming etc. (impending) 152; next, near; close at hand; eventual, ulterior; in prospect etc. (expectation) 507.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 196: distant; far off, far away; remote, telescopic, distal, wide of; stretching to etc. v.; yon, yonder; ulterior; transmarine^†, transpontine^†, transatlantic, transalpine; tramontane; ultramontane, ultramundane^†; hyperborean, antipodean; inaccessible, out of the way; unapproached^†, unapproachable; incontiguous^†.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 57: extraneous, foreign, alien, ulterior; tramontane, ultramontane.    excluded etc. 55; inadmissible; exceptional.   

Beyond or outside an area of immediate interest; remote.

Coming at a subsequent time or stage:
— Without ulterior argument.

synoniemen: later, posterior.