intrastate

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adjective

Within a sovereign state or country.

“This isn't an interstate highway so it must be only an intrastate road.”

Opposite
Less commonScrabble 10

Meanings

adjectiveintrastate (not comparable)
  1. not comparableWithin a sovereign state or country.

    Intrastate war is now the dominant form of military conflict in international politics.

    1 more example

    Nevertheless, within the common features discerned by Smith, it is obvious that the superficially similar prespectives of centralist v. provincialist versions of intrastate reform in fact postulated very different shaping purposes to the constitutional / institutional changes they sought .

    1992, Alan Cairns, Charter Versus Federalism: The Dilemmas of Constitutional Reform, page 47
  2. USnot comparableWithin a state.

    This isn't an interstate highway so it must be only an intrastate road.

    1 more example

    The difference between intrastate and interstate prison transfers, Justice Blackmun said, "is a matter of degree, not of kind," while confinement in a mental hospital is qualitatively different than an ordinary prison sentence.

    1983 April 27, “STATES CAN TRANSFER PRISONERS TO OTHER STATES, COURT HOLDS”, in The New York Times
nounintrastate (plural intrastates)

plural intrastates

  1. USA highway completely within a state (not an interstate).

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiverelating to or existing within the boundaries of a state

Opposite

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₁énteros
  3. Latin*interus
  4. Latinintrā
  5. Englishintra-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*steh₂-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*stéh₂-tu-s ~ *sth₂-téw-s
  8. Proto-Italic*status
  9. Latinstatu
  10. Old Frenchestat
  11. Middle Englishstat
  12. Englishstate
  13. Englishintrastate

From intra- + state.

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

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Chicago

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