innermost
English
Etymology
From Middle English innermost, innermest, in-nermast, alteration (due to Middle English inner, innere (“inner”)) of Old English innemest (“innermost”), equivalent to inner + -most.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɪnɚmoʊst/
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Adjective
innermost (not comparable)
- Farthest inside or towards the center or middle.
- 2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:
- Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.
- She poured her innermost feelings into her journal.
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Antonyms
- outermost
Translations
farthest inside or towards the center or middle
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Noun
innermost (plural innermosts)
- That which is innermost; the core.
- 1977, Michael Spence Lowdell Morris, The Spirit of Michael Webfoot (page 10)
- […] he had decided to not seek outside of himself where companionship and friendliness might be a soothing submergence. It seemed he had instead chosen to turn deeply inwards, towards the measures and pains of his wracked innermosts.
- 1977, Michael Spence Lowdell Morris, The Spirit of Michael Webfoot (page 10)