personally

adverb

1. 1

   In a personal manner.

2. 2

   In person.

   Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.

   'There's a boy here who wants to speak to Miss Clara personally,' he announced.

3. 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. 4

   As a person.

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

Forms

comparative

more personally

superlative

most personally