alien vs inner

alien

adj
  • Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed. 

  • Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign. 

  • Pertaining to extraterrestrial life; typical of an extraterrestrial creature. 

verb
  • To estrange; to alienate. 

  • To transfer the ownership of something. 

noun
  • Any life form of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin. 

  • A foreigner residing in a country. 

  • A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration. 

  • One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged. 

inner

adj
  • Not obvious, private, not expressed, not apparent, hidden, less apparent, deeper, obscure; innermost or essential; needing to be examined closely or thought about in order to be seen or understood. 

  • 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. 

  • Close to the centre, located near or closer to center. 

  • Inside or closer to the inside of the body. 

  • Privileged, more or most privileged, more or most influential, intimate, exclusive, more important, more intimate, private, secret, confined to an exclusive group, exclusive to a center; especially a center of influence being near a center especially of influence. 

  • Of mind or spirit, relating to the mind or spirit, to spiritual or mental processes, mental, spiritual, relating to somebody's private feelings or happening in somebody's mind, existing as an often repressed part of one's psychological makeup. 

noun
  • A thin glove worn inside batting gloves or wicket-keeping gloves. 

  • One who supports remaining in the European Union. 

  • An inner part. 

  • A forward who plays in or near the center of the field. 

  • The 2nd circle on a target, between the bull (or bull's eye) and magpie. 

  • A duvet, excluding the cover. 

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