personally

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
18
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ˈpɜː.sə.nə.li/(UK)
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/ˈpɜː.sə.nə.li/(UK) · /ˈpɜːs.nə.li/(UK) · /ˈpɝ.sə.nə.li/(US) · /ˈpɝs.nə.li/(US)

Definition of personally

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. In a personal manner.
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adv

  1. In a personal manner.
  2. In person.
    “Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.”
    “'There's a boy here who wants to speak to Miss Clara personally,' he announced.”
  3. Concerning oneself.
    “I'm really annoyed with her, personally.”
    “Personally I felt shy and uncomfortable at this obsequious adoration, and I read the same feeling in the faces of Roxton and Summerlee, but Challenger expanded like a flower in the sun.”
  4. As a person.
    “I like you personally, but as a colleague you have yet to do well.”

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Etymology

From Middle English personally, personely, personallich, personaliche, equivalent to personal + -ly.

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