Main entry: internal
Definition: happening or arising or located within some limits or especially surface
Usage: internal organs; internal mechanism of a toy; internal party maneuvering
Antonyms: external
Definition: happening or arising or located outside or beyond some limits or especially surface
Antonyms: exterior
Definition: situated in or suitable for the outdoors or outside of a building
Antonyms: outer
Definition: being on the outside or further from a center
Antonyms: extrinsic
Definition: not forming an essential part of a thing or arising or originating from the outside
Main entry: interior, internal, home, national
Definition: inside the country
Usage: the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior; the nation's internal politics
Antonyms: foreign
Definition: of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own)
Antonyms: undomestic
Definition: not domestic or related to home
Main entry: inner, internal, intimate
Definition: innermost or essential
Usage: the inner logic of Cubism; the internal contradictions of the theory; the intimate structure of matter
Antonyms: extrinsic
Definition: not forming an essential part of a thing or arising or originating from the outside
Main entry: inner, interior, internal
Definition: located inward
Usage: 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.
Antonyms: outward
Definition: relating to physical reality rather than with thoughts or the mind
Definition: toward the outside
Main entry: intragroup, internal
Definition: occurring within an institution or community
Usage: intragroup squabbling within the corporation
Antonyms: extramural
Definition: carried on outside the bounds of an institution or community