Ulterior vs Obfuscate - What's the difference?
ulterior | obfuscate |
Situated beyond, or on the farther side.
Beyond what is obvious or evident.
Being intentionally concealed so as to deceive.
* 1956–1960 , (second edition, 1960), chapter ii: “Motives and Motivation”, page 32:
(label) Happening later; subsequent.
:an ulterior action
* 1840 , in The Chemist , volume 1, page 141:
To make dark; overshadow
To deliberately make more confusing in order to conceal the truth.
(computing) To alter code while preserving its behavior but concealing its structure and intent.
As adjectives the difference between ulterior and obfuscate
is that ulterior is situated beyond, or on the farther side while obfuscate is (obsolete) obfuscated; darkened; obscured.As a verb obfuscate is
to make dark; overshadow.ulterior
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Alternative forms
* ulteriour (obsolete)Adjective
(-)- 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.
- A rather deep red coloration, which appears by the action of the first bubbles of chlorine, but which soon disappears by the ulterior action of this gas
Usage notes
Ulterior is primarily used today to mean impure, covert, external motives, and generally not opposed to etymological antonyms. In the comparative sense “beyond, farther”, the Latin antonym is , which is not used in English (compare (m)/(m) for “nearest/farthest (cause etc.)”). In the sense “after, subsequent”, it can be opposed to (m), but the sense “after” is now archaic (compare (m)/(m) for “first/last”).Derived terms
* ulterior motiveAntonyms
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Verb
(obfuscat)- Before leaving the scene, the murderer set a fire to obfuscate any evidence of his or her identity.
- We need to obfuscate these classes before we ship the final release.