personal

Meanings

Adjective

• Pertaining to human beings as distinct from things.
• 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
• Dealing with subjects about which one wishes (or people usually wish) to maintain privacy or discretion; not for public view; sensitive, intimate.
• Intended for sexual use.
• Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance; corporeal.
• Done in person; without the intervention of another.
• Relating to an individual, their character, conduct, motives, or private affairs, in an invidious and offensive manner
• Denoting a person.

Noun

• An advertisement by which individuals attempt to meet others with similar interests.
• A movable; a chattel.

Related

Similar words

• personally

Origin

• 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.