outer
/ˈaʊtə//ˈaʊtɚ/
outer adjective: outside; external. Also the comparative form of out.
Adjective
outer (comparative (rare) outermore, superlative outermost or outmost)
- Outside; external.
- Farther from the centre of the inside.
- Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the...1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 14, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
Noun (1)
outer (plural outers)
- An outer part.
- 'Phil Cornish' [a snowdrop variety] is like a cross between a pixie hat and a pagoda, with elegant upswept outers [outer petals] marked in a green colour-wash at the top and warpaint slashes at the lower end.2015 February 7, Val Bourne, “The quiet man of the world of snowdrops”, in The Daily Telegraph (London), page G8
- An uncovered section of the seating at a stadium or sportsground.
- The fourth circle on a target, outside the inner and magpie.
- A shot which strikes the outer of a target.
- The smallest single unit sold by wholesalers to retailers, usually one retail display box.
- We ordered two cartons with twelve outers in each.
Noun (2)
outer (plural outers)
- Someone who admits to something publicly.
- Someone who outs another.
- From the early 90s, these were some of the fiercest debates raging in the gay press and in gay and straight bars worldwide as blabbermouths blabbed, sometimes just for the sheer hell of it, and gay celebrities ran for cover or bit the bullet and pipped the outers to the post.2002, Simon Gage, Lisa Richards, Howard Wilmot, Queer: The Ultimate User's Guide, page 88
- One who puts out, ousts, or expels.
- An ouster; dispossession.
- One who supports leaving the European Union.
- The 51.4 per cent to 48.6 per cent victory of the "outers" broke the back of the Labour government.2013 January 25, Jon Cruddas, “Au Revoir, Europe: What If Britain Left the EU? by David Charter”, in The Independent
- Meanwhile, outers are disporting themselves on TV in luminous green ties, hand-woven by first years at the Dronefield Academy for the Sartorially Challenged.2016 February 16, Robert Shrimsley, “Gimme a Brexit break”, in Financial Times
- Synonyms:
- Brexiter
Also used as
outer is also the comparative form of out.
outer meaning in Telugu, Malayalam, Tagalog and Indonesian
outer in Telugu
- outside
- బయటి bayaṭi
outer in Malayalam
- പുറം
outer in Tagalog
- outside
- panlabas
- farther from the center
- panlabas
outer in Indonesian
- outside
- luar
Examples of outer in a sentence
- Science fiction often imagines alien civilizations in the depths of outer space.
- Unpolished grains that retained their outer coating were a major linchpin of his diet of whole foods.
- Unlike coaxial cable where the outer conductor is grounded, twisted pair is usually ungrounded.
Synonyms of outer
Antonyms
Forms of outer
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| superlative | outermost |
| superlative | outmost |
| comparative (rare) | outermore |
| Noun | |
| plural | outers |
Origin of outer
From Middle English outre, outer, outter, uttre, from Old English ūtre, ūtera, ūterra (“outer”), equivalent to out + -er. Compare German äußere (“outer”), Danish ydre (“outer”), Swedish yttre (“outer”), Icelandic ytri (“outer”). Piecewise doublet of utter.
out (verb) + -er (“agent suffix”)
From out (adjective) + -er (“comparative suffix”).
Words formed from outer
- outerchange
- outercoat
- outercourse
- outering
- outer limit
- outerly
- Outer Manchuria
- outer mantle
- Outer Mongolia
- outerness
- outer phalangeal cell
- outerplanar
- outer semidirect product
- outerside
- outer space
- outer totalistic
- outerwear
- outerweb
- all-outer
- come-outer
- down-and-outer
- full outer join
- left outer join
- locator outer marker
- maker-outer
- out-and-outer
- outer arm
- outer automorphism
- outer bar
- outer borough
- outer class
- outer core
- outer ear
- outer garment
- outer join
- outer lips
- outer marker
- outer measure
- outer planet
- outer product
- outer regular
- outer Solar System
- outer-spacey
- outer trigram
- puller-outer
- right outer join
Phrases with outer
- outer arms
- outer ears
- Outer Banks
- Outer Brass
- outer cores
- Outer House
- outer joins
- Outer Tibet
- Outer Banker
- outer limits
- Outer Bankers
- outer classes
19 more phrasesFewer phrases
- Outer Khingan
- outer markers
- outer planets
- outer boroughs
- outer garments
- Outer Hebrides
- outer measures
- outer products
- outer trigrams
- Outer Mongolian
- full outer joins
- left outer joins
- Outer Mongolians
- right outer joins
- outer automorphisms
- locator outer markers
- Appenzell Outer Rhodes
- outer phalangeal cells
- outer semidirect products
Words that rhyme with outer
Questions about outer
- What does outer mean?
- Outer means outside; external.
- What is outer in Telugu?
- Outer in Telugu is బయటి (bayaṭi). See Outer meaning in Telugu.
- What part of speech is outer?
- Outer can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce outer?
- Outer is pronounced /ˈaʊtə/ (UK).
Words near outer in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: outer (page history and authors); outer (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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