personally

adv
/ˈpɜː.sə.nə.li/UK/ˈpɝ.sə.nə.li/US

Etymology

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

  1. inherited from personally

Definitions

  1. In a personal manner.

  2. In person.

    • '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. + 1 more definition
    1. As a person.

      • I like you personally, but as a colleague you have yet to do well.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at personally. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01personally02personal03wishes04wish05connected06friend07acquainted

A definitional loop anchored at personally. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at personally

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA