Interior
WordNet
adjective
(1) Of or coming from the middle of a region or country
"Upcountry districts"
(2) Inside and toward a center
"Interior regions of the earth"
(3) 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.
(4) Situated within or suitable for inside a building
"An interior scene"
"Interior decoration"
"An interior bathroom without windows"
noun
(5) The United States federal department charged with conservation and the development of natural resources; created in 1849
(6) The inner or enclosed surface of something
(7) The region that is inside of something
WiktionaryText
Adjective
- having to do with the inner part of something
- having to do with the inland parts of a country far from the coasts
Noun
- The inside of a building, container, cavern, or other enclosed structure.
- The inside regions of a country, distanced from from the borders or coasts.
- Sir Richard Burton explored far into the African interior.
Etymology
From earlier } (whence also ), from . Cognates include Sanskrit and Ancient Greek .
Adjective
- inner, interior.
- nearer
Usage notes
Although this adjecitve is the comparative form of , there is no positive form. The word is an adverb and preposition, not an adjective.