internal

  • (a) happening or arising or located within some limits or especially surface
    • internal organs
    • internal mechanism of a toy
    • internal party maneuvering
  • (s) occurring within an institution or community
    • intragroup squabbling within the corporation
    intragroup,
  • (s) inside the country
    • the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior
    • the nation's internal politics
    interior, home, national,
  • (s) 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.
    inner, interior,
  • (s) innermost or essential
    • the inner logic of Cubism
    • the internal contradictions of the theory
    • the intimate structure of matter
    inner, intimate,

Synonyms

intragroup interior home national inner intimate

Antonyms

external

See also

inside

Words of close approximity

interne
internee internet
internal angle internal auditor internal auditory artery internal auditory vein internal carotid artery internal cerebral vein internal combustion internal-combustion engine internal control internal drive internal ear internal iliac artery internal iliac vein internalisation internalise internality internalization internalize internal jugular vein internally internal maxillary artery internal medicine internal organ internal representation internal respiration internal revenue internal revenue agent Internal Revenue Service internal rhyme internal secretion internal spermatic artery