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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Two adorable lovebirds—maximally adorable, as they are personified by two of our brightest stars, Zendaya and Robert Pattinson—are about to get married.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

Watching Alcaraz is, for the most part, like watching sunshine personified.

From BBC • Feb. 1, 2026

The late P-22 — a celebrity mountain lion that inhabited Griffith Park – personified the tribulations facing his kind.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 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

To them, a clean-living, hardworking farmer personified the ideal citizen.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby

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