personal

Meaning

Adj

1. Pertaining to persons (human beings as opposed to things or animals).
2. Of or pertaining to a particular person; relating to, or affecting, an individual, or each of many individuals
3. Dealing with subjects about which one wishes (or people usually wish) to maintain privacy or discretion; not for public view; sensitive, intimate.
4. Intended for sexual use.
5. Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance; corporeal; bodily.
6. Done in person; without an intermediary.
7. Relating to an individual, their character, conduct, motives, or private affairs, in an invidious and offensive manner
8. Of a noun or pronoun, having reference particular to humans and other entities having personality such as a named animal, a deity, a personification, etc.
9. Related to grammatical first, second, etc. persons.
10. Denoting ownership.

Noun

1. An advertisement by which an individual attempts to meet others with similar interests.
2. One's own property or asset

Synonyms

private

individual

own

one’s own

subjective

intimate

confidential

person

🧑‍🦱

firsthand

idiosyncratic

direct

peculiar

personalized

inmost

innermost

human

personalised

person-to-person

privately owned

private person

privy

proper

proprietary

secluded

self

self-centered

self-centred

unique

unofficial

verbal

my style

my way

national

personality

intimate 1

autologous

belonging to oneself

characteristic

close

corporal

distinctive

exact

exclusive

face-to-face

family

👪

immediate

individualistic

just

my

oneself

particular

personal foul

Hyphenated as

per‧son‧al

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpɜː.sə.nəl/

Etymology

From Middle English personal, personele, from Anglo-Norman personel, personal, personell, Old French personal, personel, from Late Latin persōnālis (“of a person, personly”), equivalent to person + -al. Doublet of personnel.

Sentences

Some of the leaders of the uprising later abused their privileges for personal gain .

Crampton donated a clock as a personal gift to the church .

Apartments are the personal spaces Avakins can buy .