“internal”

Definitions

• adjective

  happening or arising or located within some limits or especially surface

  Synonyms: bosom, center, central, cerebral, conceptive, conceptual, core, deep, endopsychic, esoteric, gut, heart

  Antonyms: external

  • Example:“internal organs”
  • Example:“internal mechanism of a toy”

• adjective

  occurring within an institution or community

  Synonyms: intragroup

  • Example:“intragroup squabbling within the corporation”

• adjective

  inside the country

  Synonyms: home, interior, national

  • Example:“The British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior.”
  • Example:“the nation's internal politics”

• adjective

  located inward

  Synonyms: inner, interior

  • Example:“Beethoven's manuscript looks like a bloody record of a tremendous inner battle.”
  • Example:“She thinks she has no soul, no interior life, but the truth is that she has no access to it.”

• adjective

  innermost or essential

  Synonyms: inner, intimate

  • Example:“the inner logic of Cubism”
  • Example:“the internal contradictions of the theory”