adj.
- of, affecting, or belonging to a particular person.
▸involving the presence or action of a particular individual.
- of or concerning a person's private rather than professional life.
▸making inappropriate or offensive reference to a person's character or appearance:
personal remarks.
- relating to a person's body:
personal hygiene.
- Grammar of or denoting one of the three persons.
- existing as a self-aware entity, not as an abstraction or an impersonal force:
a personal God.
n.
(
personals)
chiefly N. Amer. advertisements or messages in the personal column of a newspaper.
Derivative