Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (3)
1.
being on the outside or further from a center;
- Example: "spent hours adorning the outer man"- Example: "the outer suburbs"2.
located outside;
- Example: "outer reality"3.
being on or toward the outside of the body;
- Example: "the outer ear"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Outer \Out"er\ (out"[~e]r), a. [Compar. of Out.] [AS. [=u]tor,
compar. of [=u]t, adv., out. See Out, Utter, a.]
Being on the outside; external; farthest or farther from the
interior, from a given station, or from any space or position
regarded as a center or starting place; -- opposed to
inner; as, the outer wall; the outer court or gate; the
outer stump in cricket; the outer world.
[1913 Webster]
Outer bar, in England, the body of junior (or utter)
barristers; -- so called because in court they occupy a
place beyond the space reserved for Queen's counsel.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Outer \Out"er\, n.
(a) The part of a target which is beyond the circles
surrounding the bull's-eye.
(b) A shot which strikes the outer of a target.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Outer \Out"er\, n. [From Out, v.]
One who puts out, ousts, or expels; also, an ouster;
dispossession. [R.]
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
outer
adj 1: being on the outside or further from a center; "spent
hours adorning the outer man"; "the outer suburbs" [ant:
inner(a)]
2: located outside; "outer reality"
3: being on or toward the outside of the body; "the outer ear"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
23 Moby Thesaurus words for "outer":
apparent, cortical, epidermic, exomorphic, exterior, external,
extrinsic, fringe, open, out, outermost, outlying, outmost,
outside, outstanding, outward, outward-facing, peripheral, public,
roundabout, seeming, superficial, surface