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Personal

Personal Meaning & Definition
Personal Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Personal?

[n] a short newspaper article about a particular person or group
[adj] particular to a given individual
[adj] 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"
[adj] intimately concerning a person's body or physical being; "personal hygiene"
[adj] indicating grammatical person; "personal verb endings"
[adj] of or arising from personality; "personal magnetism"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Personal: ad hominem | ain | face-to-face | in person(p) | in the flesh(p) | individual(a) | individualised | individualized | in-person(a) | intimate | of her own | of his own | of my own | of one's own | of our own | of their own | of your own | own(a) | personalised | personalized | person-to-person | physical | private | subjective

Related Terms | Find terms related to Personal: 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| retired | secluded | sequestered | several | singular | slighting | solipsistic | special | specific | unfriendly | withdrawn

See Also | news article | news story | newspaper article

Personal In Webster's Dictionary

\Per"son*al\, a. [L. personalis: cf. F. personnel.] 1. Pertaining to human beings as distinct from things. Every man so termed by way of personal difference. --Hooker. 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. The words are conditional, -- If thou doest well, -- and so personal to Cain. --Locke. 3. Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance; corporeal; as, personal charms. --Addison. 4. Done in person; without the intervention of another. ``Personal communication.'' --Fabyan. The immediate and personal speaking of God. --White. 5. Relating to an individual, his character, conduct, motives, or private affairs, in an invidious and offensive manner; as, personal reflections or remarks. 6. (Gram.) Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun. {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 {property} (Law), movables; chattels; -- opposed to real estate or 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.
\Per"son*al\, n. (Law) A movable; a chattel.

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