personify
verb /pəˈsɒnɪfaɪ/
/pərˈsɑːnɪfaɪ/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they personify | /pəˈsɒnɪfaɪ/ /pərˈsɑːnɪfaɪ/ |
| he / she / it personifies | /pəˈsɒnɪfaɪz/ /pərˈsɑːnɪfaɪz/ |
| past simple personified | /pəˈsɒnɪfaɪd/ /pərˈsɑːnɪfaɪd/ |
| past participle personified | /pəˈsɒnɪfaɪd/ /pərˈsɑːnɪfaɪd/ |
| -ing form personifying | /pəˈsɒnɪfaɪɪŋ/ /pərˈsɑːnɪfaɪɪŋ/ |
- personify something to be an example of a quality or characteristic, or to have a lot of it synonym typify
- These children personify all that is wrong with the education system.
- He is kindness personified.
- [usually passive] to show or think of an object, quality, etc. as a person
- be personified (as somebody) The river was personified as a goddess.
Word Originearly 18th cent.: from French personnifier, from personne ‘person’.