personallyadverb
uk/ˈpɜː.sən.əl.i/us/ˈpɝː.sən.əl.i/B1 used when you give your opinion:
Personally (speaking), I think the show is going to be a great success.
B2 affecting you and not anyone else:
He believes that parents should be made personally responsible for their children's behaviour.
B2 done by you and not by someone else:
These figures should be correct because I've checked them personally.
take sth personally
C1 to think that someone is offending you when they are not:
These criticisms should not be taken personally (= they are not meant to criticize any one person in particular).
More examples
- He held me personally responsible whenever anything went wrong in the project.
- She's a very talented young singer, Mike and I personally think she's got a great future ahead of her!
- The Minister intervened personally to stop the museum being closed.
- I am not personally acquainted with the gentleman in question.
- The director will introduce the film personally at its world première.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Expressing and asking opinions
- apothegm
- ask
- come out
- couch
- day
- editorialize
- far
- for my money idiom
- pronounce
- propound
- put
- put yourself across
- remark
- run
- run sth by sb
- screed
- soapbox
- sound off
- talk
- talk sth over
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Particular and individual
Linguistics: personal pronouns
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