What is the difference between inside and interior?

Answer 1

There is no difference worth mentioning.

Answer 2

Inside
Preposition: Inside the room
Adverb: To go inside a room
Noun: Inside of the house
Adjective: An inside seat
Idiom: Inside of a kilometer

Interior
Adjective: The interior rooms of the palace
Noun: The classic interior

Answer 3

In many uses, they are identical, (as nouns and adjectives) but inside can also be used as a preposition:

In other words, you can say:
Inside the box was a gift.

You cannot say:
Interior the box was a gift. You would have to say, IN the interior of the box was a gift, because it would require a preposition.

There's also a difference in "diction."

Inside is a more casual usage. Interior is more formal. If you were writing for a magazine, you would be more likely to say "The interior is well-decorated." The editor would probably reject "The inside is well decorated." as being too casual a usage for print, even though in conversation it would be perfectly natural, and probably the first thing you would say.

Answer 4

They are synonims and just have different origins. Interior has Latin origin and Inside has Germanic origin.

However, the terms have evolved in a different way and sometimes they have specific meanings, like the Interior of a country, or the continental part of a country and interior design.

Answer 5

Inside is usually used as a preposition of place, ie. something/one is inside. Interior is always a noun as in "the interior of the house" interior design is a compound noun

Answer 6

Into exhibits a action in the direction of, with the article being interior the accusative case (whether or no longer the be conscious surely adjustments form to coach this). interior represents a region purely, and takes the dative, locative or prepositional case.

Answer 7

there's definitely no difference. inside means interior

Answer 8

This is only a guess, I would say "inside" is a general word eg when you go in your house you are inside. Interior being more specific eg the interior wall and floors etc.
That's the way i think of it

Answer 9

no real difference but interior would be used more when talking about your house or car and inside would be used when talking about a box etc... interior decorator/designer.... interior IS the inside but you might GO or BE inside (if that makes any sense to any one but me!!!!!!!!!)

Answer 10

This sounds like a trick question. Anyway, I will think that inside refers to the open space within a structure and interior would refer to the inside structure, i.e. walls/ceilings/floors.

Answer 11

interior-being within; inside of anything; internal; inner; further toward a center: the interior rooms of a house.

inside-n the inner side or part of; within: inside the circle; inside the envelope.