1. situated within or farther within; interior: an inner room. 2. more intimate, private, or secret: the inner workings of an organization. 3. of or pertaining to the mind or spirit; mental; spiritual: the inner life. 4. not obvious; hidden or obscure: an inner meaning.
Not obvious, private, not expressed, not apparent, hidden, less apparent, deeper, obscure; innermost or essential; needing to be examined closely or thought about in order to be seen or understood.
Definition of inner adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
in•ner (in′ ər), adj. situated within or farther within; interior: an inner door. more intimate, private, or secret: the inner workings of the organization. of or pertaining to the mind or spirit; mental; spiritual: the inner life. not obvious; hidden or obscure: an inner meaning.
The inner parts of something are the parts which are contained or are enclosed inside the other parts, and which are closest to the centre. She got up and went into an inner office. Wade stepped inside and closed the inner door behind him.
