'Inner' definitions:

Definition of 'inner'

(from WordNet)
adjective
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. [syn: inner, interior, internal]
adjective
Located or occurring within or closer to a center; "an inner room" [ant: outer(a)]
adjective
Innermost or essential; "the inner logic of Cubism"; "the internal contradictions of the theory"; "the intimate structure of matter" [syn: inner, internal, intimate]
adjective
Confined to an exclusive group; "privy to inner knowledge"; "inside information"; "privileged information" [syn: inside, inner, privileged]
adjective
Exclusive to a center; especially a center of influence; "inner regions of the organization"; "inner circles of government"
adjective
Inside or closer to the inside of the body; "the inner ear"

Definition of 'Inner'

From: GCIDE
  • Inner \In"ner\ ([i^]n"n[~e]r), a. [AS. innera, a compar. fr. inne within, fr. in in. See In.]
  • 1. Further in; interior; internal; not outward; as, an inner chamber. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Of or pertaining to the spirit or its phenomena. [1913 Webster]
  • This attracts the soul, Governs the inner man, the nobler part. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Not obvious or easily discovered; obscure. [1913 Webster]
  • Inner house (Scot.), the first and second divisions of the court of Session at Edinburgh; also, the place of their sittings.
  • Inner jib (Naut.), a fore-and-aft sail set on a stay running from the fore-topmast head to the jib boom.
  • Inner plate (Arch.), the wall plate which lies nearest to the center of the roof, in a double-plated roof.
  • Inner post (Naut.), a piece brought on at the fore side of the main post, to support the transoms.
  • Inner square (Carp.), the angle formed by the inner edges of a carpenter's square. [1913 Webster]