Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to personify
Participle: personified
Gerund: personifying
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | personify |
| you | personify |
| he;she;it | personifies |
| we | personify |
| you | personify |
| they | personify |
Perfect
| I | have personified |
| you | have personified |
| he;she;it | has personified |
| we | have personified |
| you | have personified |
| they | have personified |
Past
| I | personified |
| you | personified |
| he;she;it | personified |
| we | personified |
| you | personified |
| they | personified |
Pluperfect
| I | had personified |
| you | had personified |
| he;she;it | had personified |
| we | had personified |
| you | had personified |
| they | had personified |
Future
| I | will personify |
| you | will personify |
| he;she;it | will personify |
| we | will personify |
| you | will personify |
| they | will personify |
Future Perfect
| I | will have personified |
| you | will have personified |
| he;she;it | will have personified |
| we | will have personified |
| you | will have personified |
| they | will have personified |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | personify |
| you | personify |
| he;she;it | personify |
| we | personify |
| you | personify |
| they | personify |
Perfect
| I | have personified |
| you | have personified |
| he;she;it | have personified |
| we | have personified |
| you | have personified |
| they | have personified |
Imperfect
| I | personified |
| you | personified |
| he;she;it | personified |
| we | personified |
| you | personified |
| they | personified |
Pluperfect
| I | had personified |
| you | had personified |
| he;she;it | had personified |
| we | had personified |
| you | had personified |
| they | had personified |
Conditional
Present
| I | would personify |
| you | would personify |
| he;she;it | would personify |
| we | would personify |
| you | would personify |
| they | would personify |
Perfect
| I | would have personified |
| you | would have personified |
| he;she;it | would have personified |
| we | would have personified |
| you | would have personified |
| they | would have personified |
Imperative
| you | personify |
| we | Let's personify |
| you | personify |
Verbs conjugated like 'personify'
accompany,
acetify,
acidify,
adsignify,
affy,
alacrify,
alkalify,
ally,
amnesty,
amplify,
angelify,
anglicify,
anglify,
apology,
apply,
arefy,
argufy,
astony,
atrophy,
avowtry, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'personify'
ensonify,
personise,
personize,
carbonify,
demonify,
Germanify,
heroify,
insonify,
permonish,
person,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- embody
- illustrate, incarnate, exemplify, reflect, simulate, demonstrate, image, mirror
- represent
- depict, characterize, impersonate, portray, delineate
- symbolize
- typify, signify, exemplify
Antonyms
- embody
- disperse, disintegrate, dismember, segregate
- represent
- misrepresent, falsify, distort, caricature
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1727 "to attribute personal form to things or abstractions" (especially as an artistic or literary technique), from Fr.
personnifier (17c.), as if from L.
*personificare, from
persona (see person) +
-ficare "to make."
Personification in the sense of "embodiment of a quality in a person" is attested from 1807.
2. From person + -ify, after French personnifier. See: French '
personnifier'.
Sample Sentences
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Mozart could be said to personify musical genius.
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The writer personified death in the form of the Grim Reaper.
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If ever any of the girls had taken a fancy to personify their good genius, they would certainly have given to his image all they remembered of "Uncle Frank." [1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 73:]