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PERSONAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A short newspaper article about a particular person or group
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("personal" is a kind of...):
news article; news story; newspaper article (an article reporting news)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Particular to a given individual
Classified under:
Similar:
subjective (taking place within the mind and modified by individual bias)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Concerning or affecting a particular person or his or her private life and personality
Example:
he has his personal bank account and she has hers
Classified under:
Similar:
ad hominem (appealing to personal considerations (rather than to fact or reason))
face-to-face (in each other's presence)
individual; private (concerning one person exclusively)
individualised; individualized; personalised; personalized (made for or directed or adjusted to a particular individual)
in-person; in the flesh (an appearance carried out personally in someone else's physical presence)
ain; own (belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself); preceded by a possessive)
personalized (pointedly referring to or concerning a person's individual personality or intimate affairs especially offensively)
person-to-person (involving direct communication or contact between persons or parties)
intimate; private (concerning things deeply private and personal)
Also:
private (confined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy)
Antonym:
impersonal (not relating to or responsive to individual persons)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Intimately concerning a person's body or physical being
Example:
personal hygiene
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
physical (involving the body as distinguished from the mind or spirit)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Indicating grammatical person
Example:
personal verb endings
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
person (a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Of or arising from personality
Example:
personal magnetism
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
personality (the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual)
Derivation:
personality (the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual)
Context examples:
Possible but not necessary; left to personal choice.
(Optional, NCI Thesaurus)
Also called personal health record and personal medical history.
(Personal history, NCI Dictionary)
Also called personal health record and personal history.
(Personal medical history, NCI Dictionary)
Any personal suffering seemed to me to be better than to bring public shame upon a family which has held an untarnished record through so many centuries.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Your name has already been filed as one of the personal suite.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Your personal health information: who has access to your records?
(Medical Ethics, NIH)
A word or group of words indicating a person's first (personal or given) name; the name that precedes the surname.
(First Name, NCI Thesaurus)
The decision to end a pregnancy is very personal.
(Abortion, NIH)
And most of the research on depression has indeed focused on such personal factors.
(Depression - men far more at risk than women in deprived areas, University of Cambridge)
Personal factors - beginning periods before age 12 or going through menopause after age 55.
(Breast Cancer, NIH: National Cancer Institute)
