personal

1. 1.

   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”

   Antonymsimpersonal

   Similarad hominemface-to-faceindividualindividualizedin-personownpersonalizedperson-to-person
2. 2.

   particular to a given individual

   Similarsubjective
3. 3.

   of or arising from personality

   “personal magnetism”
4. 4.

   intimately concerning a person's body or physical being

   “personal hygiene”

   Similarphysical
5. 5.

   indicating grammatical person

   “personal verb endings”

1. 1.

   a short newspaper article about a particular person or group

   Broadernews article

Other forms of personal

plural

personals·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about personal

What does personal mean?

personal means "concerning or affecting a particular person or his or her private life and personality". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in personal?

personal has 3 syllables: per-so-nal. The stress falls on "per". In IPA it is /ˈpɝsɪnəl/.

What is the opposite of personal?

The recorded antonyms are impersonal.

Is personal a common word?

personal is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.