personal
Meanings
Plural: personals
Noun
- a short newspaper article about a particular person or group
- An advertisement by which an individual attempts to meet others with similar interests.
- One's own property or asset
Adjective
- concerning or affecting a particular person or his or her private life and personality
- "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"
- of or arising from personality
- "personal magnetism"
- indicating grammatical person
- "personal verb endings"
Adjective Satellite
- particular to a given individual
- intimately concerning a person's body or physical being
- "personal hygiene"
Adj
- Pertaining to persons (human beings as opposed to things or animals).
- Of or pertaining to a particular person; relating to, or affecting, an individual, or each of many individuals
- 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; bodily.
- Done in person; without an intermediary.
- Relating to an individual, their character, conduct, motives, or private affairs, in an invidious and offensive manner
- 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.
- Related to grammatical first, second, etc. persons.
- Denoting ownership.
Origin / 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.
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 10
personal is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordpersonal is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
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Words With Friends Score: 13
personal is a valid Words With Friends word