inner
AdjectiveOpen English WordNet
Adjective (6)
- located inward“Beethoven's manuscript looks like a bloody record of a tremendous inner battle — Leonard Bernstein”“she thinks she has no soul, no interior life, but the truth is that she has no access to it — David Denby”“an internal sense of rightousness — A.R.Gurney,Jr.”Synonyms: interiorinternalOpposite outwardSimilar inward
- located or occurring within or closer to a center“an inner room”Opposite outerSimilar inside, inmostRelates to position, spatial relationSee also central
- innermost or essential“the inner logic of Cubism”“the internal contradictions of the theory”“the intimate structure of matter”Synonyms: internalintimateOpposite extrinsicSimilar intrinsic, intrinsical
- confined to an exclusive group“privy to inner knowledge”“inside information”“privileged information”Synonyms: insideprivilegedOpposite inclusiveSimilar exclusive
- exclusive to a center; especially a center of influence“inner regions of the organization”“inner circles of government”Opposite inclusiveSimilar exclusive
- inside or closer to the inside of the body“the inner ear”Opposite externalSimilar internal
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Translations
Adjective being or occurring inside
- Spanish
- interior
- French
- intérieur
- German
- innerer
- Italian
- interno
- Portuguese
- interno
- Turkish
- iç
- Russian
- вну́тренний vnútrennij
- Arabic
- داخلي dāḵiliyy
- Polish
- wewnętrzny
- Swedish
- inre
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: AS. innera, a compar. fr. inne within, fr. in in. See In.
1. Further in; interior; internal; not outward; as, an inner chamber.
2. Of or pertaining to the spirit or its phenomena.
This attracts the soul, Governs the inner man, the nobler part.— John Milton
3. Not obvious or easily discovered; obscure.
Inner house Scot., the first and second divisions of the court of Session at Edinburgh; also, the place of their sittings. — Inner jib Nautical, a fore-and-aft sail set on a stay running from the fore-topmast head to the jib boom. — Inner plate Architecture, the wall plate which lies nearest to the center of the roof, in a double-plated roof. — Inner post Nautical, a piece brought on at the fore side of the main post, to support the transoms. — Inner square Carpentry, the angle formed by the inner edges of a carpenter's square.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54