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語源

From 中期英語 innermost, innermest, in-nermast, alteration (due to 中期英語 inner, innere (“inner”)) of 古期英語 innemest (“innermost”), equivalent to inner +‎ -most.

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈɪnɚmoʊst/

形容詞

innermost

1. superlative form of inner: most inner; the very deepest within; farthest from the surface or external part.

   She poured her innermost feelings into her journal.

   • 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.

反意語

• outermost

派生語

名詞

innermost (plural innermosts)

1. 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.