personal

adjective

ˈpərs-nəl How to pronounce personal (audio)
Definition of personalnext
as in subjective
of, relating to, or belonging to a single person he kept personal items in a separate drawer

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Recent Examples of personal Film cameras, physical music collections and older electronics can make everyday activities feel more deliberate or personal. — Ashley Lynch, Kansas City Star, 21 Oct. 2026 Brothers Logan and Jake Paul similarly took the leap from vloggers to launching brands like hydration drink Prime and personal care brand W, respectively. — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026 Volunteers haul machines from their personal collections to the show floor, where the general public can play them all weekend. — ArsTechnica, 21 Oct. 2026 The district also warned customers not to drink or use cloudy or dirty water for food preparation or personal hygiene. — Sacbee.com, 21 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for personal
Recent Examples of Synonyms for personal
  1. subjective
  2. personalized
  3. private
  4. individual
Adjective
  • But their subjective descriptions were a little more informative.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Kant argued that aesthetic judgments are both subjective and presumptively universal.
    — Lola Seaton, The New York Review of Books, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of subjective
Adjective
  • Now, the high school reunion lives in the device in our hands, capable of giving anyone quantitative signals from a vast reference group at any moment on our personalized scoreboards of social approval.
    — Ashwini Nadkarni, Time, 24 Oct. 2026
  • The company's Atera platform is helping produce data sets to train AI models, a process that helps accelerate personalized therapies.
    — Paulina Likos, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of personalized
Adjective
  • In August, Spencer Spirit agreed to buy Hot Topic, BoxLunch and Her Universe from Sycamore Partners, which took Hot Topic private in 2013 for about $600 million.
    — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
  • The board will also calculate the amount of wealth subject to the tax using publicly available stock information and private assessments of personal property, such as artwork and jewelry.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of private
Adjective
  • For one thing, individual stocks are more volatile than an index fund and the five-year holding period means millions of shareholders can’t sell if things go wrong.
    — Diane Brady, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026
  • There is one possibility that only wave crests will meet at this point, and the resulting wave will be four times bigger than the individual ones (constructive interference).
    — Philipp Strasberg, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
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“Personal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/personal. Accessed 25 Oct. 2026.

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