Personal
['pɜːs(ə)n(ə)l] or ['pɝsənl]
Definition
(noun.) a short newspaper article about a particular person or group.
(adj.) particular to a given individual .
(adj.) 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' .
(adj.) intimately concerning a person's body or physical being; 'personal hygiene' .
(adj.) indicating grammatical person; 'personal verb endings' .
(adj.) of or arising from personality; 'personal magnetism' .
Typed by Alice--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Pertaining to human beings as distinct from things.
(a.) 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; as, personal comfort; personal desire.
(a.) Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance; corporeal; as, personal charms.
(a.) Done in person; without the intervention of another.
(a.) Relating to an individual, his character, conduct, motives, or private affairs, in an invidious and offensive manner; as, personal reflections or remarks.
(a.) Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun.
(n.) A movable; a chattel.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Individual, private, special.[2]. Corporal, exterior, physical, material.
Editor: Tod
Examples
- At immense personal sacrifice I followed the dictates of my own ingenuity, my own humanity, my own caution, and took her identity instead. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Whether his whole soul is devoted to the great or whether he yields them nothing beyond the services he sells is his personal secret. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Social responsibility for the use of time and personal capacity is more generally recognized than it used to be. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- We have applied this test to three general aims: Development according to nature, social efficiency, and culture or personal mental enrichment. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- These revolutions require a rare combination of personal audacity and social patience. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- My personal share in the events of the family story extends no farther than the point which I have just reached. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Do you mean that I cry up Brooke on any personal ground? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I hope that I may be excused for entering on these personal details, as I give them to show that I have not been hasty in coming to a decision. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Is the absence of unlimited proprietary rights felt more strongly in the case of personal chattels (such as furniture and ornaments) than in the case of land or machinery? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But politics was a personal drama without meaning or a vague abstraction without substance. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- They begin to develop a warmer interest in their personal leaders, who secure them pay and plunder. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- If the Aristotelian conception represented just Aristotle's personal view, it would be a more or less interesting historical curiosity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Comparatively speaking, such modes of influence may be regarded as personal. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- We are in our private and personal capacities, of course. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- No amount of improvement in the personal technique of the instructor will wholly remedy this state of things. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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