personal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
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.
Base: person
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: more personal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most personal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: personall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: personals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: personall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to persons (human beings as opposed to things or animals).
pos: adj
gloss: Of or pertaining to a particular person; relating to, or affecting, an individual, or each of many individuals
pos: adj
examples: personal values; personal desire
Her song was her personal look at the values of friendship.
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.
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.
gloss: Dealing with subjects about which one wishes (or people usually wish) to maintain privacy or discretion; not for public view; sensitive, intimate.
pos: adj
examples: personal reasons
You can't read my diary—it is personal.
That's a very personal question.
I can't believe you went through my drawers and looked at all my personal things!
gloss: Intended for sexual use.
pos: adj
tags: euphemistic
examples: personal lubricant; personal massager
gloss: Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance; corporeal; bodily.
pos: adj
examples: personal charms
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?
gloss: Done in person; without an intermediary.
pos: adj
examples: a personal interview
a personal meeting
personal settings
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.
gloss: Relating to an individual, their character, conduct, motives, or private affairs, in an invidious and offensive manner
pos: adj
examples: personal reflections or remarks
Only factual argumentation, no need to get personal.
gloss: 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.
pos: adj
gloss: Related to grammatical first, second, etc. persons.
pos: adj
examples: a personal pronoun
gloss: Denoting ownership.
pos: adj
examples: one's personal vehicle, as opposed to a company vehicle
gloss: An advertisement by which an individual attempts to meet others with similar interests.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
gloss: One's own property or asset
pos: noun
examples: 1748, Tobias Smollett (translator), Alain-René Lesage (original), The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane
In addition to this, a coarse shirt quite new, a pair of my father's shoes quite old, and, what rejoiced me more than all the rest, a rouleau of twenty rials in a linen rag. Behold the sum total of my personals.
I've had my cell ransacked, savagely searched, and as a result, had my legal papers stolen and destroyed, allong with what little personal clothing and other personals I had.
Related words: personalia
personality
personally
personnel
Derived words: 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 knowledge base
personal knowledge management
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 unblocking key
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
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