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Definition of Inner

1. Adjective. Located inward. "An internal sense of rightousness"

2. Adjective. Located or occurring within or closer to a center. "An inner room"

3. Adjective. Innermost or essential. "The intimate structure of matter"

4. Adjective. Confined to an exclusive group. "Privileged information"

5. Adjective. Exclusive to a center; especially a center of influence. "Inner circles of government"

6. Adjective. Inside or closer to the inside of the body. "The inner ear"

Definition of Inner

1. a. Further in; interior; internal; not outward; as, an inner chamber.

Definition of Inner

1. Adjective. Being or occurring (farther) inside, situated farther in, located (situated) or happening on the inside of something, situated within or farther within contained within something (''inner door'', ''inner room'', inner sanctum, inner surface). ¹

2. Adjective. Close to the centre, located near or closer to center (''the inner suburbs''). ¹

3. Adjective. Inside or closer to the inside of the body (inner ear). ¹

4. Adjective. Of mind or spirit, relating to the mind or spirit, to spiritual or mental processes, mental, spiritual, relating to somebody's private feelings or happening in somebody's mind, existing as an often repressed part of one's psychological makeup (''inner confidence'', ''inner strength'', ''inner life'', inner child, inner artist, inner peace, inner light). ¹

5. Adjective. Not obvious, private, not expressed, not apparent, hidden, less apparent, deeper, obscure, ; innermost or essential, needing to be examined closely or thought about in order to be seen or understood (''inner meaning'', inner resources, inner logic ). ¹

6. Adjective. Privileged, more or most privileged, more or most influential, intimate, exclusive, more important, more intimate, private, secret, confined to an exclusive group, exclusive to a center; especially a center of influence being near a center especially of influence (''inner circle'', inner council ). ¹

7. Noun. An inner part. ¹

8. Noun. A forward who plays in or near the center of the field. ¹

9. Noun. (cricket) A thin glove worn inside batting gloves or wicket-keeping gloves. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Inner

1. something that is within [n -S]

Medical Definition of Inner

1. 1. Further in; interior; internal; not outward; as, an spirit or its phenomena. "This attracts the soul, Governs the inner man,the nobler part." (Milton) 3. Not obvious or easily discovered; obscure. Inner house, the angle formed by the inner edges of a carpenter's square. Origin: AS. Innera, a compar. Fr. Inne within, fr. In in. See In. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inner

innate reflex innated innately innateness innatenesses innates innating innatism innatist innatists

innative innavigable innecessary inned innelite inner(a) inner-city inner-directed inner Solar System inner cabinet

inner cabinets inner child inner children inner circle inner cities inner city inner core inner dental epithelium

Literary usage of Inner

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Psychology, General Introduction by Charles Hubbard Judd (1917)
"The process of evolution has resulted in a more stable set of inner conditions, ... inner organization essential to highest forms of personal behavior. ..."

2. Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey (1916)
"The inner and the Outer. — Since morality is concerned with conduct, any dualisms which are set up between mind and activity must reflect themselves in the ..."

3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"ARTICULATIONS OF THE METACARPAL BONES OF THE FOUR inner FINGERS WITH THE CARPUS. The joints formed between the carpus and four inner metacarpal hones are ..."

4. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David Hume (1890)
"Mind ' thus, by the relations which it ' invents,' constitutes both the inner and outer, and yet is treated as itself the inner ' substratum which it ..."

5. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1906)
"Second basal segment three fourths as broad as long; provided with a tubercle bearing three minute spines at the inner distal angle, and the usual hair on ..."

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