Without Within

The opposite of 'in' is 'out'.  But 'without' is not the opposite of 'within'.  This is one of those things that really bothers me about English.  I'm all for making up words.  I think it's wonderful that we invented the word 'burgle' to describe what a burglar does.  But it's difficult to make up words when the word I want to make up already exists (and doesn't mean what I think it should mean).

There isn't too much else to say on the matter.  Just beware that sometimes a word doesn't mean what you think it might mean, and to be sure that a word you make up isn't already a real word.  Aside from that, happy wordsmithing.