belonging to or affecting a particular person rather than anyone else

her personal fortune was recently estimated at £37 million

of 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

relating to a person's body

personal hygiene

of or denoting one of the three persons

existing as a self-aware entity, not as an abstraction or an impersonal force

he rejected the notion of a personal God

an advertisement or message in the personal column of a newspaper