From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Inner \In"ner\ ([i^]n"n[~e]r), adjective [AS. innera, a compar. fr. inne within, fr. in in. See {In}.]
1. Further in; interior; internal; not outward; as, an inner chamber.
2. Of or pertaining to the spirit or its phenomena.
This attracts the soul, Governs the inner man, the nobler part. --Milton.
3. Not obvious or easily discovered; obscure.
{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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: 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: {interior}, {internal}]
2: located or occurring within or closer to a center; "an inner room" [syn: {inner(a)}] [ant: {outer(a)}]
3: innermost or essential; "the inner logic of Cubism"; "the internal contradictions of the theory"; "the intimate structure of matter" [syn: {internal}, {intimate}]
4: confined to an exclusive group; "privy to inner knowledge"; "inside information"; "privileged information" [syn: {inside}, {privileged}]
5: exclusive to a center; especially a center of influence; "inner regions of the organization"; "inner circles of government"
6: inside or closer to the inside of the body; "the inner ear"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
69 Moby Thesaurus words for "inner": absolute, central, certain, close, concealed, concrete, constitutional, deep, deep-seated, defined, definite, detailed, determinate, different, distinct, distinguished, esoteric, especial, essential, exceptional, express, extraordinary, familiar, fixed, focal, gut, hidden, immanent, implanted, implicit, inalienable, individual, indoor, indwelling, infixed, ingrained, inherent, inmost, innermost, inside, interior, internal, intestine, intimate, intrinsic, inward, inwrought, irreducible, middle, minute, noteworthy, nuclear, particular, personal, precise, private, resident, respective, secret, several, singular, solipsistic, special, specific, subjective, unalienable, unchallengeable, unquestionable, visceral
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