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Stereotyped

Definition: Stereotyped

Stereotyped

Adjective

1. Lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality; "stereotyped phrases of condolence"; "even his profanity was unimaginative".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "stereotyped" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references)


Synonyms: Stereotyped

Synonyms: stereotypic (adj), stereotypical (adj), unimaginative (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Stereotyped

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Impulse

Adjective: habitual; accustomary; prescriptive, accustomed; Verb: of daily occurrence, of everyday occurrence; consuetudinary; wonted, usual, general, ordinary, common, frequent, everyday, household, garden variety, jog, trot; well-trodden, well-known; familiar, vernacular, trite, commonplace, conventional, regular, set, stock, established, stereotyped; prevailing, prevalent; current, received, acknowledged, recognized, accredited; of course, admitted, understood.

Stability

Fixed, steadfast, firm, fast, steady, balanced; confirmed, valid; fiducial; immovable, irremovable, riveted, rooted; settled, established; Verb: vested; incontrovertible, stereotyped, indeclinable.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Stereotyped

English words defined with "stereotyped": Nikolaas Tinbergenparticularised, particularized, pigeonholeritualstamp, stereotypeTinbergen. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Stereotyped

DomainTitle

Books

  • Chinese in America: Stereotyped Past, Changing Present (reference)

  • Dictionary of English Phrases: Phraseological Allusions, Catch Words, Stereotyped Modes of Speech and Metaphors, Nicknames, Sobriquets, Derivations o (reference)

  • Exploring Stereotyped Images in Victorian and Twentieth-Century Literature and Society (reference)

  • Japan in the Victorian Mind: A Study of Stereotyped Images of a Nation, 1850-80 (St Antony'S/MacMillan Series) (reference)

  • Little girls : social conditioning and its effects on the stereotyped rôle of women during infancy (reference)

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Music

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Familiar Quotations: Stereotyped

AuthorQuotation

David Hume

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.

Henry David Thoreau

A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Stereotyped

TitleAuthorQuote

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Stereotyped

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

For people with stereotyped recurrent severe seizures that can be easily recognized by the person's family, the drug diazepam is now available as a gel that can be administered rectally by a family member. (references)

These myths have not only stereotyped those with drug-related problems, but also their families, their communities, and the health care professionals who work with them. Drug abuse and addiction comprise a public health problem that affects many people and has wide-ranging social consequences. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Stereotyped

"Stereotyped" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 69.66% of the time. "Stereotyped" is used about 145 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)69.66%10132,488
Lexical Verb (past participle)20.69%3063,341
Lexical Verb (past tense)9.66%1493,893
                    Total100.00%145N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Stereotyped

Expression using "stereotyped": Stereotyped Behavior. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "stereotyped": less-stereotyped, non-gender-stereotyped, non-stereotyped, sex-stereotyped.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Stereotyped

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

woman stereotyped

10
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Stereotyped

Language Translations for "stereotyped"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i shtypur me klishe. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مستصفح, ‏مبتذل (banal, common, commonplace, conventional, corny, everyday, fade, fading, hack, hackneyed, outworn, overused, pedestrian, platitudinous, plebeian, prosaic, prose, routine, slipshod, stale, tacky, threadbare, tired, trite, trivial, vapid, vulgar, well worn, workaday, worn out). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

стереотипен (stereotype), шаблонен (conventional, hackneyed, mundane, routine, stereotypical, stock), неизменен (immutable, inalterable, incommutable, invariable, permanent, rigid, standing, stationary, steady, unaltered, undeviating, unfailing, uniform, unvaried). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

使固定 (Stereotyping). (various references)

   

Czech

  

stereotypní. (various references)

   

Danish

  

stereotyperet. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

gestereotypeerd. (various references)

   

French

  

stéréotypé (stereotypical). (various references)

   

German

  

stereotyp (impersonal, stereotype, stiff, stock), klischeehaft (cardboard, cliched, hackneyed). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

στερεότυποσ, στερεότυπος (iterative). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

sablonos (conventional, groovy, stereotypical, trite), változatlan (changeless, constant, fixed, invariable, settled, unabated, unalterable, unchanged, uniform), tömöntvényről készült, tömöntött, sztereotipált (stereotype), sztereotip (stereotype), megmerevedett (set, stiff), lemezöntésű (stereotype), egyforma (alike, all the same, equable, equal to, evenly proportioned share, level, much of a muchness, uniform). (various references)

   

Italian

  

stereotipo (cliche, stereotype). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

類型的 (patterned, typical), に嵌まった , 御定まり (normal, usual), 定型 (fixed form, regular shape), 定形 (fixed form, regular shape). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

おさ まり (normal, usual), わくにはまった, るいけいてき (patterned, typical), ていけい (cooperation, fixed form, joint business, link-up, regular shape, tie-up, trapezoid). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

시키". (various references)

   

Manx

  

plaitit, beaynchrooagh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ereotypedstay

   

Portuguese

  

fixo (deep-seated, fadeless, fast, firm, fixed, immobile, immovable, inelastic, permanent, set, settled, stable, stated, stationary, steady, unmoved), feito (accomplishment, achievement, action, activity, deed, done, feat, made, shaped, vicarious), estereotipado (set), estereótipo (stereotype). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

stereotipat. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

стереотипный (formulaic, stereotype, stereotypical). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ukalupljen, izliven u pločni slog. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

esteriotipado (set), estereotipo (plate, stereotype). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

stereotyp (stereotype). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

stereotip (stereoplate, stereotype), klişeleşmiş (groovy, ready, routine, well worn), beylik (conventional, hackneyed, seigniory, stereotypical), basmakalıp (banal, cliché, common place, conventional, copybook, hackneyed, Pat, platitudinous, routine, set, stock, trite, well worn). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

стереотипний, шаблонний (characterless, ready made, stage, worn, worn out). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

ystrydebol. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Stereotyped

Misspellings

"Stereotyped" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: serotyped, stereotypi, stererotype, steriotype, steroetype, sterotype, streiotype, streotype. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Stereotyped"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "stereotyped" (pronounced ste"rēutī'pt or ste"rēōtī'pt)
3-ī' p tpinstriped.
3-ī' p tpinstriped.

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Anagrams: Stereotyped

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-o-p-r-s-t-t-y"

-1 letter: stereotype.

-2 letters: deportees, pretested, protested, respotted.

-3 letters: deportee, detester, dopester, eyedrops, oystered, pestered, pottered, proettes, repotted, retested, serotype, stereoed, storeyed, tetrodes, treetops.

-4 letters: deepest, deports, deposer, destroy, dotters, eyesore, eyespot, oersted, pertest, petered, petters, peyotes, potters, pottery, pretest, proette, protest, redeyes, redtops, reested, reposed, retyped, retypes, rosette, speeder, speered, sported, spotted, spotter, steeped, steeper.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Familiar
6. Quotations: Fiction
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Derivations
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Bibliography


  

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