located or occurring within or closer to a center; an inner room'
located inward; Beethovens 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.
innermost or essential; the inner logic of Cubism; the internal contradictions of the theory; the intimate structure of matter
confined to an exclusive group; privy to inner knowledge; inside information; privileged information
[ Syn: inside , privileged ]
exclusive to a center; especially a center of influence; inner regions of the organization; inner circles of government'
inside or closer to the inside of the body; the inner ear'