internal

Speech parts

1. internal - Adjective

2. internal - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Inward; interior; being within any limit or surface; inclosed; -- opposed to external; as, the internal parts of a body, or of the earth.

Derived from, or dependent on, the thing itself; inherent; as, the internal evidence of the divine origin of the Scriptures.

Pertaining to its own affairs or interests; especially, (said of a country) domestic, as opposed to foreign; as, internal trade; internal troubles or war.

Pertaining to the inner being or the heart; spiritual.

Intrinsic; inherent; real.

Lying toward the mesial plane; mesial.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

inner interior inside inward national home within private native domestic secret inherent intrinsic intimate intramural
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Antonyms

external exterior mass frontier common public
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Phrases with the word

internal organs internal memory internal company policies internal biology internal parts internal policy

Examples

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace. Václav Havel

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces. Richard Perle

The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders. Eric Hoffer

External nature is only internal nature writ large. Swami Vivekananda

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake. E. M. Forster

For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly, not of things natural and worldly, such as are treated of in the sense of the letter. Emanuel Swedenborg

Close letter words and terms

intermyofibrillar intermyotomal intern internal abdominal oblique muscle internal acoustic meatus internal affairs