personified

[per-son-uh-fahyd]

adjective

1. (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.

2. (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.

3. embodied or incarnated in a real person or concrete thing.

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

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of personify.

Other Word Forms

• unpersonified adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of personified¹

personify ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

Between her sparkling teeth, her blindingly white blouses, and her overall way-too-bright energy, Autumn’s mother is basically sunlight personified.

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He had been solidity personified since the start of the year, and unquestionably the leading McLaren driver to that point of the season.

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Germany this time is personified by a defendant: Hermann Göring, head of the Luftwaffe and second only to the Führer in the military command.

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

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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.

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Related Words

• characterized 
• defined 
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