internal
1. happening or arising or located within some limits or especially surface (Freq. 10)
- internal organs
- internal mechanism of a toy
- internal party maneuvering
• Ant:
external
• Similar to:
inner, interior, internecine, intrinsic
• See Also:
inside
• Attrubites:
position, spatial relation
2. occurring within an institution or community (Freq. 1)
- intragroup squabbling within the corporation
• Syn:
intragroup
• Similar to:
intramural
3. located inward (Freq. 1)
- "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
• Similar to:
inward
4. inside the country (Freq. 1)
- the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior
- the nation's internal politics
• Syn:
home, interior, national
• Similar to:
domestic
5. innermost or essential
- the inner logic of Cubism
- the internal contradictions of the theory
- the intimate structure of matter
• Syn:
inner, intimate
• Similar to:
intrinsic, intrinsical
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