| Adj. | 1. | inner - 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.inward - relating to or existing in the mind or thoughts; "a concern with inward reflections" | |
| 2. | inner - located or occurring within or closer to a center; "an inner room"outer - being on the outside or further from a center; "spent hours adorning the outer man"; "the outer suburbs" | |
| 3. | inner - innermost or essential; "the inner logic of Cubism"; "the internal contradictions of the theory"; "the intimate structure of matter"intrinsic, intrinsical - belonging to a thing by its very nature; "form was treated as something intrinsic, as the very essence of the thing"- John Dewey | |
| 4. | inner - confined to an exclusive group; "privy to inner knowledge"; "inside information"; "privileged information"exclusive - excluding much or all; especially all but a particular group or minority; "exclusive clubs"; "an exclusive restaurants and shops" | |
| 5. | inner - exclusive to a center; especially a center of influence; "inner regions of the organization"; "inner circles of government"exclusive - excluding much or all; especially all but a particular group or minority; "exclusive clubs"; "an exclusive restaurants and shops" | |
| 6. | inner - inside or closer to the inside of the body; "the inner ear"internal - happening or arising or located within some limits or especially surface; "internal organs"; "internal mechanism of a toy"; "internal party maneuvering" | |