personified

American  

[per-son-uh-fahyd] / pərˈsɒn əˌfaɪd /

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!

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verb

1. 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

Bardot starred in nearly 50 films including And God Created Woman and Contempt, setting fashion trends with her tousled blonde hair and bold eyeliner, before becoming the model for Marianne, the personified symbol of France.

From BBC • Jan. 4, 2026

In 1969, Bardot came to embody the nation itself after President Charles de Gaulle chose her as a new model for Marianne: a mythical figure that has personified the French Republic since the revolution.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025

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

Related Words

• characterized
• defined
• described
• expressed
• pictured