inner
Use Inner in a sentence
ər adjective
1.
situated within or farther within; interior: an inner door.
2.
more intimate, private, or secret: the inner workings of the organization.
3.
of or pertaining to the mind or spirit; mental; spiritual: the inner life.
4.
not obvious; hidden or obscure: an inner meaning.
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| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
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| —adj | |
| 1. | being or located further inside: an inner room |
| 2. | happening or occurring inside: inner movement |
| 3. | relating to the soul, mind, spirit, etc: inner feelings |
| 4. | more profound or obscure; less apparent: the inner meaning |
| 5. | exclusive or private: inner regions of the party |
| 6. | 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 molecule: an inner ester |
| —n | |
| 7. | archery Also called: red |
| a. the red innermost ring on a target | |
| b. a shot which hits this ring | |
| 'innerly | |
| —adv | |
| 'innerness | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
inner
c.1400, from O.E. inra, comp. of inne (adv.) "inside" (see in). Inner city, in ref. to poverty and crime, is attested from 1968.
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Example sentences
Non-whites were left with high-rise blocks and private rental units in the inner city, which at the time were less desirable.
Each of us has a rich inner mental life, one that seems inaccessible to everyone else.
When the unnerved scientists gathered the fragments, they noticed that the bone now revealed the inner ear.
If not raging over something, they would seem in danger of collapsing into inner emptiness.
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