personal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜː.sə.nəl/
ipa: /ˈpɜːs.nəl/
ipa: /ˈpɜɹ.sə.nəl/
ipa: /ˈpɜɹs.nəl/
Forms: form: more personal
form: most personal
form: personall
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.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to persons (human beings as opposed to things or animals).
examples: text: personal values; personal desire
text: Her song was her personal look at the values of friendship.
text: Despite personal schisms and differences in spiritual experience, there is a very coherent theology of Snape shared between the wives. To examine this manifestation of religious fandom, I will first discuss the canon scepticism and anti-Rowling sentiment that helps to contextualise the wider belief in Snape as a character who extends beyond book and film.
ref: 2014 March 3, Zoe Alderton, “‘Snapewives’ and ‘Snapeism’: A Fiction-Based Religion within the Harry Potter Fandom”, in Religions, volume 5, number 1, MDPI, →DOI, pages 219–257:
text: You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own is easy, has a far more elegant fragrance and is, above all, such a great brag! Flavouring kecap manis is an intensely personal thing, so try this version now and next time cook the sauce down with crushed, split lemongrass and a shredded lime leaf.
ref: 2015 October 27, Matt Preston, The Simple Secrets to Cooking Everything Better, Plum, →ISBN, page 192:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a particular person; relating to, or affecting, an individual, or each of many individuals
examples: text: personal reasons
text: You can't read my diary—it is personal.
text: That's a very personal question.
text: I can't believe you went through my drawers and looked at all my personal things!
glosses: Dealing with subjects about which one wishes (or people usually wish) to maintain privacy or discretion; not for public view; sensitive, intimate.
examples: text: personal lubricant; personal massager
glosses: Intended for sexual use.
examples: text: personal charms
text: The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
glosses: Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance; corporeal; bodily.
examples: text: a personal interview
text: a personal meeting
text: personal settings
text: Although you miss the nonverbal cues that you pick up in a personal meeting, you can call far more clients in a day than you can meet with in person.
ref: 2011, Bob Nelson, Peter Economy, Consulting For Dummies:
glosses: Done in person; without an intermediary.
examples: text: personal reflections or remarks
text: Only factual argumentation, no need to get personal.
glosses: Relating to an individual, their character, conduct, motives, or private affairs, in an invidious and offensive manner
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: 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.
examples: text: a personal pronoun
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Related to grammatical first, second, etc. persons.
examples: text: one's personal vehicle, as opposed to a company vehicle
glosses: Denoting ownership.
Derived terms: antipersonal
bipersonal
depersonalize
depersonalization
extrapersonal
first-personal
fursonal
hyperpersonal
impersonal
interpersonal
intrapersonal
monopersonal
multipersonal
nonpersonal
nothing personal
overpersonalize
peripersonal
personal ad
personal advertisement
personal area network
personal assistant
personal attack
personal attacker
personal best
personal brand
personal capital
personal column
personal computer
personal conduct
personal covenant
personal crisis
personal data
personal dative
personal day
personal defence weapon
personal defence
personal defense weapon
personal development
personal digital assistant
personal effect
personal equation
absolute p.e.
personal estate
personal exception
personal fiduciary
personal finance
personal flotation device
personal foul
personal god
personal goddess
personal hell
personal hygiene
personal identification number
personal identity
personal injury
personalise
personalize
personalism
personalist
personalistic
personal jurisdiction
personal law
personal ledger
personal life
personal location beacon
personal location radiobeacon
personal locator beacon
personal locator radio-beacon
personal lubricant
personally
personal message
personal mobility device
personal name
personal navigant
personalness
personal online desktop
personal ordinariate
personal organizer
personal pension
personal pronoun
personal property
personal property tax
personal protective equipment
personal protector
personal record
personal rule
personal security
personal service
personal shopper
personal shopping
Personal Social Health Education
personal space
personal stereo
personal time
personal trainer
personal training
personal transaction
personal transporter
personalty
personal union
personal video recorder
personal water craft
personalzine
perzine
polypersonal
prepersonal
profersonal
subpersonal
superpersonal
suprapersonal
telepersonals
third-personal
transpersonal
tripersonal
ultrapersonal
unipersonal
unpersonal
up close and personal
Related terms: personalia
personality
personally
personnel