| a. | 1. | Further in; interior; internal; not outward; | |||||||||||||||
| 2. | Of or pertaining to the spirit or its phenomena. | ||||||||||||||||
| 3. | Not obvious or easily discovered; obscure.
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| 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. |
| 2. | inner - located or occurring within or closer to a center; "an inner room" Antonyms: 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" | |
| 4. | inner - confined to an exclusive group; "privy to inner knowledge"; "inside information"; "privileged information" Synonyms: privileged, inside | |
| 5. | inner - exclusive to a center; especially a center of influence; "inner regions of the organization"; "inner circles of government" | |
| 6. | inner - inside or closer to the inside of the body; "the inner ear" |