inner

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   inside or closer to the inside of the body

   the inner ear

2. 2
   adj

   located inward

   Beethoven's manuscript looks like a bloody record of a tremendous inner battle- Leonard Bernstein

3. 3
   adj

   innermost or essential

   the inner logic of Cubism

4. 4
   adj

   confined to an exclusive group

   privy to inner knowledge

5. 5
   adj

   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

6. 6
   adj

   Close to the centre, located near or closer to center.

   the inner suburbs

7. 7
   adj

   Inside or closer to the inside of the body.

   inner ear

8. 8
   adj

   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

Etymology

Capitalization of inner, from Middle English inner, ynner, ynnere, from Old English innera, comparative of inne (“within”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁en. A demonym for an inhabitant of inner planets of the Solar System.