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The American HeritageĀ® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of, relating to, or located within the limits or surface; inner.
  • adj. Residing in or dependent on essential nature; intrinsic: the internal contradictions of the theory.
  • adj. Located, acting, or effective within the body.
  • adj. Of or relating to mental or spiritual nature: "An internal sense of righteousness dwindles into an external concern for reputationā€ ( A.R. Gurney, Jr.)
  • adj. Of or relating to the domestic affairs of a nation, group, or business.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. inside of something
  • adj. within the body
  • adj. concerned with the domestic affairs of a nation, state or other political community.
  • adj. concerned with the non-public affairs of a company or other organisation
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Inward; interior; being within any limit or surface; inclosed; -- opposed to external.
  • adj. Derived from, or dependent on, the thing itself; inherent.
  • adj. Pertaining to its own affairs or interests; especially, (said of a country) domestic, as opposed to foreign
  • adj. Pertaining to the inner being or the heart; spiritual.
  • adj. Intrinsic; inherent; real.
  • adj. Lying toward the mesial plane; mesial.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Situated or comprised within, or in an inner part or place; inclosed; on the finite side of a bounding surface or line; within the outer boundary of; visceral.
  • Pertaining to the subject itself, and independent, or relatively so, of other things. Thus, the internal affairs of a country are the affairs of its people with one another.
  • Inner; pertaining to the mind, or to the relations of the mind to itself.
  • In anatomy and zoology, in general, inner or interior; not superficial; deep-set; away from the surface or next to the axis of the body or of a part: as, the internal carotid or iliac artery; the internal head of the gastrocnemius.
  • To be taken internally, as a medicine.
  • Applied to a student who has studied in a college of an examining university, as opposed to an external student, or one who has studied in a college not belonging to that institution.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. located inward
  • adj. innermost or essential
  • adj. occurring within an institution or community
  • adj. inside the country
  • adj. happening or arising or located within some limits or especially surface
  • Equivalent
    inward    intrinsical    intrinsic    intramural    domestic    interior    inner    internecine   
    Antonym
    exterior    external   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    inland    interior    inward    inner    inside    inclosed    inherent    spiritual    intrinsic    real   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    colonel    diurnal    eternal    external    fraternal    infernal    journal    kernel    maternal    nocturnal   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    external    physical    inner    domestic    continuous