1. (

• 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. ;

2. (

• inner

) located or occurring within or closer to a center; "an inner room" ;

3. (

• inner ,
• internal ,
• intimate

) innermost or essential; "the inner logic of Cubism"; "the internal contradictions of the theory"; "the intimate structure of matter" ;

4. (

• inside ,
• inner ,
• privileged

) confined to an exclusive group; "privy to inner knowledge"; "inside information"; "privileged information" ;

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" ;