internal

Academic Word List, sublist 4.

About 66.76 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Of or situated on the inside.

   We saw the internal compartments of the machine.

2. adjective Within the body.

   Her bleeding was internal.

3. adjective Concerned with the domestic affairs of a nation, state or other political community.

   The nation suffered from internal conflicts.

4. adjective Concerned with the non-public affairs of a company or other organisation.

   An internal investigation was conducted.

5. adjective Present or arising within an organism or one of its parts.

   an internal stimulus

6. adjective Applied or intended for application through the stomach by being swallowed.

   an internal remedy

7. adjective Experienced in one's mind; inner rather than expressed.

   internal feelings

8. adjective Of the inner nature of a thing.

Similar words

in intramural intrinsical inside inner interior inward domestic intimate home

Often followed by

and revenue affairs structure medicine control organs or security energy

Word family

internalise internalised internalises internalising internalities internality internalize internalized internalizes internalizing