'Personal' definitions:
Definition of 'personal'
From: WordNet
adjective
Concerning or affecting a particular person or his or her private life and personality; "a personal favor"; "for your personal use"; "personal papers"; "I have something personal to tell you"; "a personal God"; "he has his personal bank account and she has hers" [ant: impersonal]
adjective
Particular to a given individual
adjective
Of or arising from personality; "personal magnetism"
adjective
Intimately concerning a person's body or physical being; "personal hygiene"
adjective
Indicating grammatical person; "personal verb endings"
noun
A short newspaper article about a particular person or group
Definition of 'Personal'
From: GCIDE
- Personal \Per"son*al\ (p[~e]r"s[u^]n*al), a. [L. personalis: cf. F. personnel.]
- 1. Pertaining to human beings as distinct from things. [1913 Webster]
- Every man so termed by way of personal difference. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Of or pertaining to a particular person; relating to, or affecting, an individual, or each of many individuals; peculiar or proper to private concerns; not public or general; as, personal comfort; personal desire. [1913 Webster]
- The words are conditional, -- If thou doest well, -- and so personal to Cain. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance; corporeal; as, personal charms. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Done in person; without the intervention of another. "Personal communication." --Fabyan. [1913 Webster]
- The immediate and personal speaking of God. --White. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Relating to an individual, his character, conduct, motives, or private affairs, in an invidious and offensive manner; as, personal reflections or remarks. [1913 Webster]
- 6. (Gram.) Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun. [1913 Webster]
- Personal action (Law), a suit or action by which a man claims a debt or personal duty, or damages in lieu of it; or wherein he claims satisfaction in damages for an injury to his person or property, or the specific recovery of goods or chattels; -- opposed to real action.
- Personal equation. (Astron.) See under Equation.
- Personal estate or Personal property (Law), movables; chattels; -- opposed to real estate or real property. It usually consists of things temporary and movable, including all subjects of property not of a freehold nature.
- Personal identity (Metaph.), the persistent and continuous unity of the individual person, which is attested by consciousness.
- Personal pronoun (Gram.), one of the pronouns I, thou, he, she, it, and their plurals.
- Personal representatives (Law), the executors or administrators of a person deceased.
- Personal rights, rights appertaining to the person; as, the rights of a personal security, personal liberty, and private property.
- Personal tithes. See under Tithe.
- Personal verb (Gram.), a verb which is modified or inflected to correspond with the three persons. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Personal'
From: GCIDE
- Personal \Per"son*al\, n. (Law) A movable; a chattel. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'personal'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absolute,
- actual,
- adverse,
- anonymous,
- belittling,
- bodily,
- bosom,
- certain,
- close,
- closet,
- concrete,
- critical,
- dear,
- defined,
- definite,
- deprecating,
- derogatory,
- detailed,
- determinate,
- different,
- disparaging,
- distinct,
- distinguished,
- esoteric,
- especial,
- exceptional,
- exclusive,
- express,
- extraordinary,
- familiar,
- fixed,
- idiosyncratic,
- in person,
- in the flesh,
- incognito,
- individual,
- inmost,
- inner,
- innermost,
- insulting,
- interior,
- intimate,
- inward,
- isolated,
- live,
- minute,
- noteworthy,
- offensive,
- particular,
- peculiar,
- physical,
- precise,
- private,
- privy,
- respective,
- retired,
- secluded,
- sequestered,
- several,
- singular,
- slighting,
- solipsistic,
- special,
- specific,
- unfriendly,
- withdrawn
Words containing 'Personal'
- In person,
- In the person of,
- Person,
- Personable,
- Personalism,
- Personalities,
- Personality,
- Personalize,
- Personalized,
- Personalizing,
- Personally,
- Personate,
- Personated,
- Personating,
- Personation,
- Personator,
- Personeity,
- Personize,
- for each person,
- of each person,
- person to person,
- personableness,
- personalization,
- persons,
- person-to-person,
- A respecter of persons,
- Artificial person,
- False personation,
- Fictitious person,
- Legal person,
- Natural person,
- Person County,
- Person, NC,
- Personal action,
- Personal equation,
- Personal estate,
- Personal identity,
- Personal pronoun,
- Personal property,
- Personal representatives,
- Personal rights,
- Personal servitude,
- Personal tithes,
- Personal verb,
- Things personal,
- Third person,
- To have respect of persons,
- To respect the person,
- To respect the persons,
- To truss a person,
- White person,
- abandoned person,
- aliterate person,
- anal personality,
- bad person,
- bereaved person,
- bisexual person,
- black person,
- blind person,
- clumsy person,
- colored person,
- common person,
- crabby person,
- creative person,
- cult of personality,
- dead person,
- deaf person,
- deceased person,
- disagreeable person,
- diseased person,
- displaced person,
- disreputable person,
- double personality,
- dual personality,
- eccentric person,
- emotional person,
- english person,
- enlisted person,
- epicene person,
- famous person,
- fat person,
- female person,
- first person,
- forgetful person,
- french person,
- genital personality,
- good person,
- handicapped person,
- heterosexual person,
- holy person,
- homeless person,
- hunted person,
- illiterate person,
- important person,
- in-person,
- incompetent person,
- inexperienced person,
- influential person,
- insured person,
- irish person,
- juvenile person,
- large person,
- learned person,
- literate person,
- male person,
- married person,
- multiple personality,
- narcissistic personality,
- nonreligious person,
- nude person,
- old person,
- oral personality,
- oriental person,
- person agreement,
- person hour,
- person of color,
- person of colour,
- personal appeal,
- personal business,
- personal care,
- personal chattel,
- personal check,
- personal cheque,
- personal computer,
- personal effects,
- personal expense,
- personal foul,
- personal income,
- personal judgement,
- personal judgment,
- personal letter,
- personal loan,
- personal magnetism,
- personal manner,
- personal matters,
- personal memory,
- personal organiser,
- personal organizer,
- personal relation,
- personal relationship,
- personal representative,
- personal wealth,
- personality assessment,
- personality disorder,
- personality inventory,
- personality test,
- plastic person,
- poor person,
- primitive person,
- professional person,
- psychopathic personality,
- psychotic person,
- religious person,
- retired person,
- rich person,
- schizotypal personality,
- scholarly person,
- second person,
- selfish person,
- shy person,
- sick person,
- silent person,
- sleepless person,
- slovenly person,
- small person,
- sociopathic personality,
- split personality,
- stateless person,
- straight person,
- street person,
- stupid person,
- thin person,
- uneducated person,
- unemotional person,
- unemployed person,
- unfortunate person,
- ungrateful person,
- unkind person,
- unpleasant person,
- unskilled person,
- unsuccessful person,
- unusual person,
- unwelcome person,
- very important person,
- wealthy person,
- working person,
- young person,
- Person County, NC,
- To give a person line,
- To play into a person's hands,
- To tar and feather a person,
- anal retentive personality,
- antisocial personality disorder,
- california personality inventory,
- eysenck personality inventory,
- one-person,
- personal credit line,
- personal digital assistant,
- personal identification number,
- personal line of credit,
- public relations person,
- to go over the head of a person,
- visually impaired person,
- To keep a person on a short leash,
- association for the advancement of retired persons,
- color-blind person,
- deaf-and-dumb person,
- minnesota multiphasic personality inventory,
- obsessive-compulsive personality,
- self-employed person,
- sixteen personality factor questionnaire,
- self-report personality inventory