PERSONALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does personally mean? 

• PERSONALLY (adverb)
  The adverb PERSONALLY has 5 senses:

1. as yourself

2. as a person

3. in a personal way

4. in the flesh; without involving anyone else

5. concerning the speaker

  Familiarity information: PERSONALLY used as an adverb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERSONALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

As yourself

Context example:

speaking personally, I would not want to go

Sense 2

Meaning:

As a person

Context example:

he is personally repulsive

Pertainym:

personal (of or arising from personality)

Sense 3

Meaning:

In a personal way

Context example:

he took her comments personally

Antonym:

impersonally (without warmth)

Pertainym:

personal (concerning or affecting a particular person or his or her private life and personality)

Sense 4

Meaning:

In the flesh; without involving anyone else

Synonyms:

in person; personally

Context example:

he appeared in person

Pertainym:

personal (concerning or affecting a particular person or his or her private life and personality)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Concerning the speaker

Context example:

personally, I find him stupid

 Context examples 

I am personally of the same value that I was when nobody wanted me.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I shall take nothing for granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into it.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I love to look at her; and I will add this praise, that I do not think her personally vain.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

We were very grave; and when we came to a stray seal, or pencil-case, or ring, or any little article of that kind which we associated personally with him, we spoke very low.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As I read, however, I applied much personally to my own feelings and condition.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I came personally, Mr. Holmes, in order to insure that you would return with me.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He goes over to Amsterdam to-night, but says he returns to-morrow night; that he only wants to make some arrangements which can only be made personally.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Perhaps, since the matters which we have to discuss will affect you personally in a very intimate fashion, it is as well that we should talk where there can be no eavesdropping.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This is enough to say upon the subject of my diet, wherewith other travellers fill their books, as if the readers were personally concerned whether we fare well or ill.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

When you have finished, relock both the original and the draft in the desk, and hand them over to me personally to-morrow morning.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)