in person

1. 1.

   in the flesh; without involving anyone else

   “I went there personally”

   “he appeared in person”

   Synonymspersonally

Questions about in person

What does in person mean?

in person means "in the flesh; without involving anyone else".

What is another word for in person?

Close synonyms include personally. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is in person a common word?

in person is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.