personal
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
personal/ˈpɜːsənl/
▶adjective
- 1 of, affecting, or belonging to a particular person.
■ involving the presence or action of a particular individual.
- 2 of or concerning a person's private rather than professional life.
■ making inappropriate or offensive reference to a person's character or appearance: personal remarks.
- 3 relating to a person's body: personal hygiene.
- 4 Grammar of or denoting one of the three persons.
- 5 existing as a self-aware entity, not as an abstraction or an impersonal force: a personal God.
– derivatives
personally adverb.
personally adverb.
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ad hominem
- Afrikaner
- agony column
- ambulance-chaser
- arbitrary
- authoritarian
- autopsy
- aye
- baba ganoush
- bach
- baggage
- baptismal name
- batman
- battery
- bill of sale
- blog
- blogosphere
- book learning
- born-again
- cad
- card
- casework
- chattel
- chip and PIN
- clean
- clobber
- cognomen
- commonplace book
- compassionate leave
- consume
- consumer
- corrupt
- counsel
- counsellor
- cross
- Dear John letter
- detinue
- disciple
- disinterested
- effect
- ego
- Eros
- evangelical
- evidence
- first-hand
- first name
- fraud
- gear
- Gemeinschaft
- goods and chattels
