personify

Other forms of personify

past tense or participle

personified

present participle

personifying·

third person

personifies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about personify

What does personify mean?

personify means "invest with or as with a body; give body to". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in personify?

personify has 4 syllables: per-so-ni-fy. The stress falls on "so". In IPA it is /pɚˈsɑnəˌfaɪ/.

What is another word for personify?

Close synonyms include body, embody, be, personate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is personify a common word?

personify is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with personify?

72 words rhyme with personify. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.