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Personal (adjective)
Pertaining to human beings as distinct from things.
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Personal (adjective)
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
“personal question;”
“personal desire”
“Her song was her personal look at the values of friendship.”
“You can’t read my diary – it is personal.”
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Personal (adjective)
Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance; corporeal.
“personal charms”
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Personal (adjective)
Done in person; without the intervention of another.
“a personal interview;”
“personal settings”
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Personal (adjective)
Relating to an individual, their character, conduct, motives, or private affairs, in an invidious and offensive manner
“personal reflections or remarks”
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Personal (adjective)
Denoting a person.
“a personal’ pronoun”
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Personal (noun)
An advertisement by which individuals attempt to meet others with similar interests.
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Personal (noun)
A movable; a chattel.
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Impersonal (adjective)
Not personal; not representing a person; not having personality.
“An almighty but impersonal power, called Fate. –Sir J. Stephen.”
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Impersonal (adjective)
Lacking warmth or emotion; cold.
“She sounded impersonal as she gave her report of the Nazi death camps.”
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Impersonal (adjective)
Not having a subject, or having a third person pronoun without an antecedent.
“The verb “rain” is impersonal in sentences like “It’s raining.””
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Personal (adjective)
belonging to or affecting a particular person rather than anyone else
“her personal fortune was recently estimated at £37 million”
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Personal (adjective)
done or made by a particular person; involving the actual presence or action of a particular individual
“the President and his wife made personal appearances for the re-election of the state governor”
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Personal (adjective)
of or concerning one’s private life, relationships, and emotions rather than one’s career or public life
“the book describes his sporting career and gives little information about his personal life”
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Personal (adjective)
referring to an individual’s character, appearance, or private life in an inappropriate or offensive way
“he had the cheek to make personal remarks”
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Personal (adjective)
relating to a person’s body
“personal hygiene”
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Personal (adjective)
of or denoting one of the three persons.
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Personal (adjective)
existing as a self-aware entity, not as an abstraction or an impersonal force
“he rejected the notion of a personal God”
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Personal (noun)
an advertisement or message in the personal column of a newspaper.