inner

[ in-er ]

/ ˈɪn ər /

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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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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

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

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How to use inner in a sentence

Because I’ve spoken to more than a few people in his inner circle, and they tell me that very few people, maybe only the candidate himself, actually thought on Election Day that he was going to win.
Full Transcript: Sean Spicer on ‘The Carlos Watson Show’|Daniel Malloy|August 26, 2020|Ozy
The inner one has some 14 times the mass of Jupiter and is 160 times farther from its star than Earth is from our sun.
A weird cousin of our solar system is caught on camera|Lisa Grossman|August 26, 2020|Science News For Students
You can publish guest posts, submit press releases, and reach out to authority sites in your niche to link to the inner pages of your website to increase domain authority.
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The pair kept going, diving into the inner workings of Bateman and Katz’s method and eventually figuring out what new ideas would allow them to transfer it over from the world of Set to the whole numbers.
Landmark Math Proof Clears Hurdle in Top Erdős Conjecture|Erica Klarreich|August 3, 2020|Quanta Magazine

Today, we’re going to finish up by talking about the inner-circle contenders.
Who’s Who In The NBA Bubble: The Inner-Circle Contenders|Jared Dubin|July 27, 2020|FiveThirtyEight
Le Femme Finishing School helps transwomen find their inner beauty, no matter their age.
Inside A Finishing School for Transwomen|Sharon Adarlo|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
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 Trailblazer|Oliver Jones|December 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
There must be in his life, as Truffaut remarked about Hitchcock's films, “inner fire and cool surfaces.”
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days|David Freeman|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
This can be seen not just in distant exurbs or suburbs, but in prime inner-city neighborhoods.
The Rustbelt Roars Back From the Dead|Joel Kotkin, Richey Piiparinen|December 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The demonic ‘anti-Santa’ enjoys an unlikely renaissance as we learn to embrace our inner pagan.
Meet Krampus, the Seriously Bad Santa|Jay Michaelson|December 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Eggs and nestlings were found lying on the bare soil at the inner ends of the burrows; no nesting material was found.
Summer Birds From the Yucatan Peninsula|Erwin E. Klaas
The inner ends of the burrows were enlarged with a depression in the floor, where the eggs were laid.
Summer Birds From the Yucatan Peninsula|Erwin E. Klaas
She was even meditating a retreat, inexplicably embarrassed, when an inner door opened and Lady Victoria entered.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
He found the man, with his wife and children, in a large corner room opening on the inner court of the Mission quadrangle.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
Meadows began to play inner planet combinations that occasionally paid, though at short odds.
Fee of the Frontier|Horace Brown Fyfe

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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