inner
[in-er]
- situated within or farther within; interior: an inner door.
- more intimate, private, or secret: the inner workings of the organization.
- of or relating to the mind or spirit; mental; spiritual: the inner life.
- not obvious; hidden or obscure: an inner meaning.
- noting or relating to an aspect of a person's mind or personality that has not been fully discovered, revealed, or expressed: a place where anyone can find their inner artist regardless of skill level.
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Origin of inner
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Examples from the Web for inner
Contemporary Examples
Le Femme Finishing School helps transwomen find their inner beauty, no matter their age.
For his part though, the dude with the inner grandma is pretty much just looking ahead.
Chris Colfer on Writing, Acting, and the Pain of Being A Pop Culture TrailblazerOliver Jones
December 15, 2014
There must be in his life, as Truffaut remarked about Hitchcock's films, “inner fire and cool surfaces.”
The demonic ‘anti-Santa’ enjoys an unlikely renaissance as we learn to embrace our inner pagan.
The RSD Facebook page, and all the local RSD groups, known as “inner circle,” have been switched to private.
Historical Examples
Thence they entered the inner Ceramicus, where Aspasia resided.
PhilotheaLydia Maria Child
What my inner self may be I am not prepared to say, but I know that it is there, as everyone else knows that it is in him.
The Conquest of FearBasil King
Also of the inner court he writes of '4 Toures, wherof the Kepe is one.'
Yorkshire Painted And DescribedGordon Home
She never had been able to see the inner workings of Eileen's heart.
Her Father's DaughterGene Stratton-Porter
He was led into an inner room where he saw a man seated at a large desk.
The Foolish LoversSt. John G. Ervine
inner
- being or located further insidean inner room
- happening or occurring insideinner movement
- relating to the soul, mind, spirit, etcinner feelings
- more profound or obscure; less apparentthe inner meaning
- exclusive or privateinner regions of the party
- chem (of a compound) having a cyclic structure formed or apparently formed by reaction of one functional group in a molecule with another group in the same moleculean inner ester
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- Also called: red archery
- the red innermost ring on a target
- a shot which hits this ring
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Word Origin and History for inner
adj.
c.1400, from Old English inra, comp. of inne (adv.) "inside" (see in). Cf. Old High German innaro, German inner. An unusual evolution for a comparative, it has not been used with than since Middle English. Inner tube in the pneumatic tire sense is from 1894. Inner city, in reference to poverty and crime, is attested from 1968.
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