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Adjective inner has 6 senses
- inner, interior, internal - 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.
Antonym: outward (indirect, via inward)
- inner - located or occurring within or closer to a center; "an inner room"
Antonyms: outer, out, outermost, outmost, outside, satellite
- inner, internal, intimate - innermost or essential; "the inner logic of Cubism"; "the internal contradictions of the theory"; "the intimate structure of matter"
Antonym: extrinsic (indirect, via intrinsic)
- inside, inner, privileged - confined to an exclusive group; "privy to inner knowledge"; "inside information"; "privileged information"
Antonym: inclusive (indirect, via exclusive)
- inner - exclusive to a center; especially a center of influence; "inner regions of the organization"; "inner circles of government"
Antonym: inclusive (indirect, via exclusive)
- inner - inside or closer to the inside of the body; "the inner ear"
Antonym: external (indirect, via internal)
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