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Definition: Stereotyped |
StereotypedAdjective1. 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: StereotypedSynonyms: stereotypic (adj), stereotypical (adj), unimaginative (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Stereotyped |
| English words defined with "stereotyped": Nikolaas Tinbergen ♦ particularised, particularized, pigeonhole ♦ ritual ♦ stamp, stereotype ♦ Tinbergen. (references) |
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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. |
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Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. |
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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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 69.66% | 101 | 32,488 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 20.69% | 30 | 63,341 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 9.66% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Total | 100.00% | 145 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "stereotyped": Stereotyped Behavior. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "stereotyped": less-stereotyped, non-gender-stereotyped, non-stereotyped, sex-stereotyped. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
woman stereotyped | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 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) stereotipat. (various references) стереотипный (formulaic, stereotype, stereotypical). (various references) ukalupljen, izliven u pločni slog. (various references) esteriotipado (set), estereotipo (plate, stereotype). (various references) stereotyp (stereotype). (various references) 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) стереотипний, шаблонний (characterless, ready made, stage, worn, worn out). (various references) ystrydebol. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "stereotyped" (pronounced ste"rēutī'pt or ste"rēōtī'pt) |
| 3 | -ī' p t | pinstriped. |
| 3 | -ī' p t | pinstriped. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. | |
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| 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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