say it: IN-ur
inner is an adjective meaning "located inward". It carries 6 recorded senses.
confined to an exclusive group
“privy to inner knowledge”
“inside information”
“privileged information”
exclusive to a center; especially a center of influence
“inner regions of the organization”
“inner circles of government”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for inner come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.