personal

adjective

• 1 [attributive] belonging to or affecting a particular person rather than anyone else:her personal fortune was recently estimated at £37 million
• done or made by a particular person; involving the actual presence or action of a particular individual:the President and his wife made personal appearances for the re-election of the state governor

• 2of or concerning one’s private life, relationships, and emotions rather than one’s career or public life:the book describes his sporting career and gives little information about his personal life
• referring to an individual’s character, appearance, or private life in an inappropriate or offensive way:he had the cheek to make personal remarks

• 3relating to a person’s body:personal hygiene

• 4 Grammar of or denoting one of the three persons. See person (sense 2).

• 5 Theology existing as a self-aware entity, not as an abstraction or an impersonal force:he rejected the notion of a personal God

noun

• an advertisement or message in the personal column of a newspaper.