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indoor

indoor

93 1.0
Inside a building rather than outside
  • adjective
  • /ˈɪnˌdɔr/
translation icon : interior
  • It's bigger now, with a couple of bedrooms and an indoor toilet added on.
  • indoor air
  • indoor and outdoor
  • indoor pollution

Or no sports or school or indoor fun of any kind.

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Examples

  • One such development is the increased popularity of indoor rock climbing and bouldering walls in American schools.

    Academic text (2011)
  • I'm more of an indoor person.

  • We're, uh, we're setting up a new indoor range out there.

  • You wonder why we have an indoor garden and no one else does?

    Fiction book (1991)
  • Our final way to make our indoor cats happy.

  • You know, 'cause now it has a very large indoor swimming pool.

  • And even better, a massive indoor heated swimming pool.

  • I've decided to do an indoor skydive with my friend.

  • The squall drifts on within half an hour, and indoor work is put aside for outdoor work.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • They installed an indoor basketball court so the team could practice all year round.

Antonyms

192 1.0

Used or done outside rather than inside a building

Compounds

A place inside a house or office where people grow plants for decoration

How Sheltered

indoor
93 1.0
sheltered
1 3.2
covered
1 1.0
open-air
11 2.1
exposed
1 3.4

Surface Forms

indoor positive

Morphology

indoor = door (semi-transparent) = in + door

The parts suggest being inside, but the meaning depends on the idiomatic older sense of 'within doors' meaning inside a building. [Postprocessing: moved 'in' from base_words to prefix]

Etymology

Indoor is made of in- meaning 'inside' and door, the familiar word for an entrance, so you can picture being 'inside' the door. That's why indoor means 'inside a building' and is the opposite of outdoor.