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personally

per·son·al·ly
P p

Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [pur-suh-nl-ee]
    • /ˈpɜr sə nl i/
    • /ˈpɜːsənəli/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [pur-suh-nl-ee]
    • /ˈpɜr sə nl i/

Definitions of personally word

  • adverb personally through direct contact; in person; directly: I will thank him personally. 1
  • adverb personally as if intended for or directed at one's own person: to take someone's comments personally. 1
  • adverb personally as regards oneself: Personally, I don't care to go. 1
  • adverb personally as an individual: to like someone personally, but not as an employer. 1
  • adverb personally in my opinion 1
  • adverb personally in person 1

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Origin of personally

First appearance:

before 1350
One of the 20% oldest English words
Middle English word dating back to 1350-1400; See origin at personal, -ly

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Personally

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

personally popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 82% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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Synonyms for personally

adv personally

  • behind someone's back — without someone's knowledge or consent
  • by oneselfbe oneself, to be in one's normal state of mind or physical condition. to be unaffected and sincere: One makes more friends by being oneself than by putting on airs.
  • confidentially — Confidentially is used to say that what you are telling someone is a secret and should not be discussed with anyone else.
  • directly — in a direct line, way, or manner; straight: The path leads directly to the lake.
  • distinctively — serving to distinguish; characteristic; distinguishing: the distinctive stripes of the zebra.

pron personally

  • myself — There is no disagreement over the use of myself and other -self forms when they are used intensively (I myself cannot agree) or reflexively (He introduced himself proudly). Questions are raised, however, when the -self forms are used instead of the personal pronouns (I, me, etc.) as subjects, objects, or complements.  Myself occurs only rarely as a single subject in place of I:  Myself was the one who called.  The recorded instances of such use are mainly poetic or literary. It is also uncommon as a simple object in place of me:  Since the letter was addressed to myself, I opened it.  As part of a compound subject, object, or complement, myself and to a lesser extent the other -self forms are common in informal speech and personal writing, somewhat less common in more formal speech and writing:  The manager and myself completed the arrangements. Many came to welcome my husband and myself back to Washington.   Myself and other -self forms are also used, alone or with other nouns or pronouns, in constructions after as, than, or but in all varieties of speech and writing:  The captain has far more experience than myself in such matters. Orders have arrived for everyone but the orderlies and yourself.   There is ample precedent, going as far back as Chaucer and running through the whole range of British and American literature and other serious formal writing, for all these uses. Many usage guides, however, state that to use myself in any construction in which I or me could be used instead (as My daughter and myself play the flute instead of My daughter and I, or a gift for my husband and myself instead of for my husband and me) is characteristic only of informal speech and that such use ought not to occur in writing. See also me.  

adverb personally

  • closely — to put (something) in a position to obstruct an entrance, opening, etc.; shut.
  • disjointly — In a disjointed state.
  • egocentrically — In an egocentric manner.
  • emotionally — In an emotional manner; displaying emotion.
  • firsthand — from the first or original source: We heard the news of the accident firsthand from a witness.

pronoun personally

  • ourselves — Used as the object of a verb or preposition when this is the same as the subject of the clause and the subject is the speaker and one or more other people considered together.
  • we — (used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).

Antonyms for personally

adverb personally

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