inner

[ in-er ]

/ ˈɪn ər /

adjective

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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decorum

the act of or need for making up one's mind.

dignified propriety of behavior, speech, dress, etc.

a company of singers, especially an organized group employed in church service.

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Origin of inner

before 900; Middle English; Old English innera, comparative based on the adv. inne within, inside; see inmost, -er⁴

OTHER WORDS FROM inner

in·ner·ly, adverb, adjectivein·ner·ness, noun

Words nearby inner

innards, innate, innate immunity, innate releasing mechanism, innateness hypothesis, inner, inner automorphism, inner bar, inner barrister, inner cell mass, inner child

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Example sentences from the Web for inner

Le Femme Finishing School helps transwomen find their inner beauty, no matter their age.
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For his part though, the dude with the inner grandma is pretty much just looking ahead.
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There must be in his life, as Truffaut remarked about Hitchcock's films, “inner fire and cool surfaces.”
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The demonic ‘anti-Santa’ enjoys an unlikely renaissance as we learn to embrace our inner pagan.
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The RSD Facebook page, and all the local RSD groups, known as “inner circle,” have been switched to private.
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It mostly consisted of how the inner man should be sustained, and of anecdotes of agility in avoiding shot and shell.
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He escorted her to the inner room, which served as his own study and consultation chambers.
The Broken Gate|Emerson Hough
For a man who hasn't a taste for artillery, it occurs to me, my friend, you are keeping up a pretty lively fire on my inner works.
Marjorie Daw|Thomas Bailey Aldrich
He kept very close at that young man's side as the strange party moved on into the inner chamber.
The Fortieth Door|Mary Hastings Bradley
And yet he who seeks a meaning in these things and a value and an inner development may come to another kind of truth.
Psychology and Social Sanity|Hugo Mnsterberg

British Dictionary definitions for inner

inner

/ (ˈɪnə) /

adjective (prenominal)

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

noun

Also called: red archery

the red innermost ring on a target
a shot which hits this ring

Derived forms of inner

innerly, adverbinnerness, noun

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inner

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adjective (prenominal)

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