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Hither vs Outer - What's the difference?

hither | outer |

As nouns the difference between hither and outer

is that hither is nettle (urtica ) while outer is an outer part or outer can be someone who admits to something publicly.

As an adjective outer is

outside; external.

hither

English

Adverb

(-)
  • (literary, or, archaic) To this place, to here.
  • He went hither and thither.
  • over here
  • Derived terms

    * hitherto * hitherward

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (archaic) On this side; the nearer.
  • * 1954', The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in living creatures on the '''hither side of good and evil. — Aldous Huxley, ''The Doors of Perception (Chatto & Windus 1954, p. 30)
  • outer

    English

    Etymology 1

    Comparative of out by analogy with inner.

    Adjective

  • Outside; external.
  • Farther from the centre of the inside.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=14 citation , passage=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 house.}}
    Antonyms
    * inner

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An outer part.
  • *
  • The part of a target which is beyond the circles surrounding the bullseye.
  • A shot which strikes the outer of a target.
  • (wholesale trade) the smallest single unit normally sold to retailers, usually equal to one retail display box.
  • We ordered two cartons with twelve outers in each.

    Derived terms

    * outer space * outerness

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who admits to something publicly.
  • Someone who outs another.
  • One who puts out, ousts, or expels.
  • An ouster; dispossession.
  • Anagrams

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