<p><strong>Adverb</strong></p><ul><li>toward the inside, interior, or center, as of a place, space, or body.</li><li>into or toward the mind or soul: He turned his thoughts inward.</li><li>Obsolete: on the inside or interior.</li><li>in the mind or soul; mentally or spiritually.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>proceeding or directed toward the inside or interior.</li><li>situated within or in or on the inside; inner; internal: an inward room.</li><li>pertaining to the inside or inner part.</li><li>located within the body: the inward parts.</li><li>pertaining to the inside of the body: inward convulsions.</li><li>inland: inward passage.</li><li>mental or spiritual; inner: inward peace.</li><li>muffled or indistinct, as the voice.</li><li>private or secret.</li><li>closely personal; intimate.</li><li>Archaic: pertaining to the homeland; domestic.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the inward or internal part; the inside.</li><li>inwards, the inward parts of the body; entrails; innards.</li></ul>