Entry Word: inner

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 situated farther in <an inner area of the national park that is some distance from the nearest road>

Synonyms inside, interior, internal, inward

Related Words inmost, innermost; central, mid, middle

Near Antonyms outermost, outmost

Antonyms exterior, external, outer, outside, outward

2 of or relating to the mind <kept his inner life private> — see mental 1