innards
- noun
- /ˈɪnərdz/
- Informal
- The veterinarian explained that the innards of the animal needed to be carefully examined for any signs of disease.
A woman's throat was slit, manner, innards were were thrown out.
- A woman's throat was slit, manner, innards were were thrown out.
- He just, it just gnawed at his innards so much.
Examples
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So this looks like the innards of the open fit earbuds.
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He just, it just gnawed at his innards so much.
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What has a lot of white innards that can be diced?
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They started turning when you let them go the first two and continued turning as he covered their innards so nobody could see.
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I see the poorest innards of a bone structure.
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So you're going on the inside like the inner innards, the innards like right in there.
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You don't have the choice to defend, you know, pull back to the innards of your city, which is really, really poor gameplay.
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Once I've got the innards of the proton, I need to crawl my way up.
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A woman's throat was slit, manner, innards were were thrown out.
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Because I scanned my toenail innards when I Drake cried for you when I Drake cried.
Synonyms
The inside part of something, like a room or box
A main part inside the body that does an important job, like the heart or liver
Organs inside the body, especially in the belly, like the stomach and intestines
Parts inside an animal that people eat, like liver or heart
The organs inside the body, especially in the belly
The parts inside the belly of an animal or person, especially the intestines
Antonyms
How Internal
Surface Forms
Morphology
innards = innard (semi-transparent) = innard + s
The plural -s is a transparent pluralization, but the stem 'innard' contains an archaic/less-transparent element (-ard), so while the overall sense 'internal parts' is guessable from 'in-', the stem morphology is not fully transparent to learners.
Etymology
Innards comes from the part in- meaning 'inside' and is like the simple word inner. So your innards are the inner parts or 'guts' of a person, animal, or machine, which is why we use it for organs or inside parts.