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internally

adverbattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ɪnˈtɜːnəli//
  • United Kingdom//-ˈtɜːnl̩i//
  • Canada//ɪnˈtɜɹnəli//
  • Australia//ɪnˈtɜːnəli//

In an internal manner; within or inside of external limits; in an inner part or situation.

adverb

  1. 1

    In an internal manner; within or inside of external limits; in an inner part or situation.

  2. 2

    With regard to internal affairs.

    A sort of compromise must be worked out internally and with those people and communities our decisions will impact.

  3. 3

    Inwardly; spiritually.

    "I cannot," said she, internally, "see that it makes any difference to him which of my daughters he takes, if, as he says, it is my admirable mode of bringing them up which has put matrimony into his head, for it is certain I have brought them up impartially...

Etymology

Etymology tree English internal Middle English -ly English -ly English internally From internal + -ly.

Forms

comparative
more internally
superlative
most internally
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).