innermore

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A form of inner — Being or occurring (farther) inside, situated farther in, located (situated) or happening on the inside of something, situated within or farther within contained within something.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

adjective

alternative obsolete inmore

  1. comparativerarecomparative form of inner: more inner

    The innermore walls were sod inlayed with roots from trees, plants and weeds.

    2006, Paul Vela, Sealed with a Kiss, page 97
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    The synovial membrane may be considered to comprise the innermore of two strata which make up the joint capsule, whose function it is to maintain contact between the articular ends of the bones.

    1934, Ralph Pemberton, Robert Bayley Osgood, The Medical and Orthopaedic Management of Chronic Arthritis

    But in the innermore recesses, when you had a conversation with her along — by the way, do you have a notation of this conversation which I read you in your report?

    1940, Supreme Court, page 1186

    Rotation must then have become slightly super-keplerian there, which can be achieved by magnetic tethering to innermore disk regions which rotate faster.

    2000, E. Aubourg, Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology

    As the audacious traveler from the Amish superblock leaves home to seek his fortune, he will progress outward through surrounding superblocks of greater sophistication, compressing as he goes, and if life in the fast lane proves too stressful, he can decompress by retreating to innermore and innermore rings, finally coming home to the farm with the horse-drawn plow.

    2005, Frederick Cookinham, The Age of Rand

Origin

  1. Middle Englishinnermore
  2. Englishinnermore

From Middle English innermore, innermor, equivalent to inner + -more.

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APA

innermore. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/innermore

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“innermore.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/innermore. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “innermore,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/innermore.

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