Adjective: internal
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more internal |
| Superlative | most internal |
Sample Sentences
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We saw the internal compartments of the machine.
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Her bleeding was internal.
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The nation suffered from internal conflicts.
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the minister of internal affairs
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An internal investigation was conducted.
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an internal stimulus
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an internal remedy
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internal feelings
Adjectives inflected like internal
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle English internall, internalle, borrowing from New Latin internālis (“of or pertaining to the inner part”), from internus (“inward, internal”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). By surface analysis, intern + -al.