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.
Origin of inner
before 900; Middle English; Old English innera, comparative based on the adv. inne within, inside; see inmost, -er4
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.
Guide: How to structure a local SEO strategy for your business|Christian Carere|August 6, 2020|Search Engine Watch
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
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
The RSD Facebook page, and all the local RSD groups, known as “inner circle,” have been switched to private.
The Secret World of Pickup Artist Julien Blanc|Brandy Zadrozny|December 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It mostly consisted of how the inner man should be sustained, and of anecdotes of agility in avoiding shot and shell.
South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. IV (of 6)|Louis Creswicke
He escorted her to the inner room, which served as his own study and consultation chambers.
The Broken Gate|Emerson Hough
For a man who hasn't a taste for artillery, it occurs to me, my friend, you are keeping up a pretty lively fire on my inner works.
Marjorie Daw|Thomas Bailey Aldrich
He kept very close at that young man's side as the strange party moved on into the inner chamber.
The Fortieth Door|Mary Hastings Bradley
And yet he who seeks a meaning in these things and a value and an inner development may come to another kind of truth.
Psychology and Social Sanity|Hugo Mnsterberg
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