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Synonyms & Antonyms for inner
Synonyms
inside, interior, internal, inward
Antonyms
exterior, external, outer, outside, outward
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The church’s simple, brick-and-stone buildings form a compound around an inner courtyard. — Richard A. Marini, ExpressNews.com, "San Antonio’s 10 best overlooked architectural gems," 13 Sep. 2019 Swift said when asked if anyone in her inner circle had been told ahead of time. — Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com, "Sheryl Crow Clarifies 'Big Stink' Comments About Taylor Swift's Masters: 'I Chose the Wrong Word'," 13 Sep. 2019 In the end, the book’s 83 images are about nothing so much as American immensity, a span of distance both inner and outer. — BostonGlobe.com, "What Mr. Frank did in that book was to take the leading tradition of American photography — the documentary tradition, with its reverence for the particular, of Timothy O’Sullivan, Lewis Hine, and Walker Evans — and enlarge it: to emblematize the particular and make it mythic.," 11 Sep. 2019 The drawbridge had to be opened during that time, officials said, and that was likely to result in delays for traffic along the Beltway’s inner and outer loops in Maryland and Northern Virginia. — Washington Post, "Drawbridge maintenance on Woodrow Wilson Bridge," 9 Sep. 2019 The columns on floors where the inner and outer angles intersect, where the building shape is most narrow, do not shift. — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, "Engineering the Vista Tower," 3 Sep. 2019 In this case, the glial cells form a mesh-like structure between the skin’s outer and inner layers, with filament-like protrusions that extend into the skin’s outer layer. — National Geographic, "Newly discovered organ may be lurking under your skin," 15 Aug. 2019 The ship was built with a double bottom to separate the inner and outer hulls. — John Christopher Fine, sun-sentinel.com, "SS Copenhagen shipwreck home to picture-perfect artificial reef," 18 July 2019 One with thick, closed-cell foam insulation Generally all commercial coolers use the same method of insulation: foam between the inner and outer walls. — Meredith Fore, WIRED, "What Makes a Good Cooler (According to Physics)?," 3 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'inner.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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