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PERSONALLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
As a person
Example:
he is personally repulsive
Classified under:
Pertainym:
personal (of or arising from personality)
Sense 2
Meaning:
In the flesh; without involving anyone else
Example:
he appeared in person
Synonyms:
in person; personally
Classified under:
Pertainym:
personal (concerning or affecting a particular person or his or her private life and personality)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Concerning the speaker
Example:
personally, I find him stupid
Classified under:
Adverbs
Sense 4
Meaning:
In a personal way
Example:
he took her comments personally
Classified under:
Adverbs
Antonym:
impersonally (without warmth)
Pertainym:
personal (concerning or affecting a particular person or his or her private life and personality)
Sense 5
Meaning:
As yourself
Example:
speaking personally, I would not want to go
Classified under:
Adverbs
Context examples:
Personally, I was with Challenger, who was in a beatific humor, moving about as one in a silent ecstasy and beaming benevolence from every feature.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He enquired after you very particularly; asked even if you were personally altered, little suspecting that to my eye you could never alter.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Later on, when each developed individuality and became personally conscious of impulsions and desires, the attraction of the light increased.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
You can have been personally acquainted with very few of a set of men you condemn so conclusively.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I have not known you long to be sure, personally at least, but I have known you and all your family by description a great while; and as soon as I saw you, I felt almost as if you was an old acquaintance.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The rapidity of their progress, in some instances, was even surprising; and an honest and happy pride I took in it: besides, I began personally to like some of the best girls; and they liked me.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I don’t personally know anyone who pays matchmakers thousands of dollars to find them a perfect match, but if you were considering doing this, January would not be the time to do so.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Still, it is clear that she is not personally threatened.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
At the end of the month, he went over to San Francisco and personally called upon the editor.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
“I am at a loss to know, sir,” he said, “what you can have to speak about which affects me personally in a very intimate fashion.”
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
