English > personal: 6 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | Concerning or affecting a particular person or his or her private life and personality. |
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| Examples | - "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"
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| Narrower | ad hominem | appealing to personal considerations (rather than to fact or reason) |
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| face-to-face | In each other's presence |
| in-person, in the flesh | An appearance carried out personally in someone else's physical presence |
| individual, private | Concerning one person exclusively |
| individualized, individualised, personalized, personalised | made for or directed or adjusted to a particular individual |
| own, ain | belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself) |
| person-to-person | Involving direct communication or contact between persons or parties |
| personalized | pointedly referring to or concerning a person's individual personality or intimate affairs especially offensively |
| private, intimate | Concerning things deeply private and personal |
| See also | private | Confined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy |
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| Opposite | impersonal | not relating to or responsive to individual persons |
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| Spanish | individual, particular, personal |
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| Catalan | individual, particular, personal |
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| Adverbs | personally | in a personal way |
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| personally | in the flesh |
