To adapt something to an individual’s needs, preferences or identity.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- personalize a service
- personalize a message
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The service was personalized according to the user’s stated needs.
The message was personalized without altering the shared requirement.
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Word forms
- Base
- personalize
- Past tense
- personalized
- Past participle
- personalized
- Present participle
- personalizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- personalize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are personalizing
- Present perfect
- have/has personalized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been personalizing
- Past
- personalized
- Past continuous
- was/were personalizing
- Past perfect
- had personalized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been personalizing
- Future
- will personalize
- Future continuous
- will be personalizing
- Future perfect
- will have personalized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been personalizing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: personalize; personalizes; personalized; personalized; personalizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: institutional and conceptual change, philosophical orientation, qualification of recurrence and degree. Disciplines: academic writing, philosophy, cross-disciplinary analysis. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: personalizes.
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