personaladj/ˈpɜː.sə.nəl/

• 1

  Pertaining to persons (human beings as opposed to things or animals).

• 2

  Of or pertaining to a particular person; relating to, or affecting, an individual, or each of many individuals

  • personal values; personal desire
  • Her song was her personal look at the values of friendship.
• 3

  Dealing with subjects about which one wishes (or people usually wish) to maintain privacy or discretion; not for public view; sensitive, intimate.

  • personal reasons
  • You can't read my diary—it is personal.
• 4

  Intended for sexual use.

  • personal lubricant; personal massager
• 5

  Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance; corporeal; bodily.

  • personal charms
  • The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?
• 6

  Done in person; without an intermediary.

  • a personal interview
  • a personal meeting
• 7

  Relating to an individual, their character, conduct, motives, or private affairs, in an invidious and offensive manner

  • personal reflections or remarks
  • Only factual argumentation, no need to get personal.
• 8

  grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsOf a noun or pronoun, having reference particular to humans and other entities having personality such as a named animal, a deity, a personification, etc.

personalnoun/ˈpɜː.sə.nəl/

• 1

  An advertisement by which an individual attempts to meet others with similar interests.

• 2

  One's own property or asset

  • 1748, Tobias Smollett (translator), Alain-René Lesage (original), The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane In addition to this, a coarse shirt quite new, a pair of my father's shoes quite old, and, what rejoiced me more than all the rest, a rouleau of twenty rials in a linen rag. Behold the sum total of my personals.
  • I've had my cell ransacked, savagely searched, and as a result, had my legal papers stolen and destroyed, allong with what little personal clothing and other personals I had.