personified

American

[per-son-uh-fahyd] / pərˈsɒn əˌfaɪd /

adjective

(of an inanimate object or abstraction) spoken or written of as having the nature or character of a person.

Ancient Greek philosophers referred to personified Wisdom as the logos.
(of a thing or abstraction) represented visually in the form of a person.

In this video game, Mario teams up with a personified cloud and a doll from another universe.
embodied or incarnated in a real person or concrete thing.

I honestly admire that musician—to me, he is personified coolness!

verb

the simple past tense and past participle of personify.

Other Word Forms

unpersonified adjective

Etymology

Origin of personified

personify ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

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He is also softening the stiff upper lip that once personified his family’s approach; William was filmed recently tearing up after talking to a woman whose husband had died by suicide.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

Garfield is goodness personified; we meet him on his farm, cooking breakfast for the family, planing wood to make a picnic table.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2025

But bassist Garry Tallent never smiled that much, and Springsteen’s onstage foil, the Big Man, Clarence Clemons, was never awkward or gangly the way he is portrayed here; the man was elegance personified.

From Salon • Oct. 28, 2025

In other words, he personified the scale of the issue and the depth and breadth of the anger provoked by it – and yet he was let out of prison by accident.

From BBC • Oct. 27, 2025

For us Ultima personified goodness, and any risk in defense of goodness was right.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

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