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

Concepts

personal

private

individual

own

one’s own

subjective

intimate

person

confidential

inmost

innermost

human

direct

firsthand

idiosyncratic

peculiar

personalized

close

my

privately owned

oneself

private person

individualistic

self-centered

self-centred

proprietary

autologous

immediate

family

my style

my way

exclusive

characteristic

distinctive

particular

unique

intimate 1

secluded

corporal

privy

proper

belonging to oneself

verbal

personal foul

face-to-face

person-to-person

national

personalised

exact

just

unofficial

personality

self

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

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