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Definition: Unrepresentative |
UnrepresentativeAdjective1. Not exemplifying a class; "I soon tumbled to the fact that my weekends were atypical"; "behavior quite unrepresentative (or atypical) of the profession". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Worker Rights | Panama | It requires mandatory arbitration of disputes; and it allows for the participation of an unrepresentative worker delegate in the tripartite (government, labor, and industry) arbitration commission. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Unrepresentative" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unrepresentative" is used about 108 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) | 100% | 108 | 31,306 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "unrepresentative"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | нехарактерен (indistinctive), нетипичен (atypical), непредставителен. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | den ikke-repraesentative opfoersel,som et tykvaegget roer ville udvise i henhold til et krybehastighedsudtryk for sekundaer krybning (the unrepresentative behaviour of a thick walled tube which a steady state or secondary creep rate equation would predict). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | het niet-representatieve gedrag van een dikwandige buis, zoals dit opgrond van een eenparige of secundaire kruipsnelheidsvergelijking zou kunnen wordeu voorspeld (the unrepresentative behaviour of a thick walled tube which a steady state or secondary creep rate equation would predict). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | le comportement non représentatif d'un tube paroi épaisse tel qu'il serait prédit par une équation de la vitesse du fluage stationnaire ou secondaire (the unrepresentative behaviour of a thick walled tube which a steady state or secondary creep rate equation would predict). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | nicht repräsentativ, nicht frei gewählt werden. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | η μη αντιπροσωπευτική συμπεριφορά σωλήνα με χοντρά τοιχώματα τέτοια που θα μπορούσε να περιγραφτεί από μια εξίσωση μόνο μόνιμης κατάσταση (the unrepresentative behaviour of a thick walled tube which a steady state or secondary creep rate equation would predict). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | comportamento non rappresentativo di un tubo a pareti di rilevante spessore che prevederebbe un'equazione della vel cit di scorrimento stationario o secondario (the unrepresentative behaviour of a thick walled tube which a steady state or secondary creep rate equation would predict). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | epresentativeunray нетипичный (atypical, uncharacteristic). (various references) el comportamiento no muy representativo de un tubo de pared gruesa tal como predice la ecuación para la fluencia secundaria (the unrepresentative behaviour of a thick walled tube which a steady state or secondary creep rate equation would predict). (various references) нехарактерний (non-distinctive), непредставницький. (various references) không miêu t, không biểu hiện không tiêu biểu, không đại diện; không đại diện cho dân chúng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "unrepresentative": unrepresentativeness, unrepresentativenesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "unrepresentative" (pronounced unre'pruze"ntutiv) |
| 13 | -r e' p r u z e" n t u t i v | representative. |
| 7 | -e" n t u t i v | argumentative, preventative, tentative. |
| 5 | -t u t i v | anticompetitive, competitive, consultative, exploitative, noncompetitive, putative, rep, repetitive, uncompetitive. |
| 4 | -u t i v | accusative, acquisitive, additive, affirmative, alliterative, alternative, causative, cognitive, commemorative, communicative, comparative, consecutive, conservative, contemplative, cumulative, curative, decorative, definitive, degenerative, demonstrative, derivative, diminutive, dispositive, duplicative, evocative, executive, expletive, Federative, figurative, fixative, formative, fugitive, generative, hypersensitive, illustrative, imaginative, imperative, indicative, infinitive, informative, initiative, inoperative, inquisitive, insensitive, interpretive, intuitive, laxative, lucrative, narrative, negative, neoconservative, noncumulative, nonexecutive, normative, nutritive, operative, palliative, participative, pejorative, positive, prerogative, preservative, primitive, prohibitive, provocative, punitive, recuperative, relative, remunerative, restorative, secretive, sedative, sensitive, speculative, superlative, talkative, ultraconservative, uncooperative, unimaginative, uninformative, vituperative. |
| 3 | -t i v | abortive, accommodative, accumulative, active, adaptive, addictive, adjective, administrative, adoptive, affective, appointive, appreciative, assaultive, assertive, attentive, attractive, authoritative, automotive, captive, collaborative, collective, combative, conductive, congestive, connective, constructive, contraceptive, cooperative, corrective, corruptive, counterproductive, creative, deceptive, defective, deliberative, descriptive, destructive, detective, digestive, dilutive, directive, disincentive, disparages, disruptive, dissipative, distinctive, distributive, effective, elective, elucidative, eruptive, exhaustive, exploitive, facultative, festive, furtive, hyperactive, imitative, inactive, inattentive, incentive, ineffective, infective, injunctive, innovative, instinctive, instructive, interactive, introspective, invective, inventive, investigative, irrespective, iterative, legislative, locomotive, manipulative, meditative, motive, native, nonautomotive, nonnative, nonproductive, objective, obstructive, octave, overactive, perceptive, perspective, photoconductive, plaintive, predictive, preemptive, presumptive, preventive, proactive, probative, productive, prognosticative, projective, prospective, protective, qualitative, quantitative, radioactive, reactive, receptive, reconstructive, redemptive, redistributive, reflective, refractive, regulative, rehabilitative, reproductive, respective, restive, restrictive, retroactive, retrospective, seductive, selective, stimulative, subjective, substantive, suggestive, superconductive, supportive, unattractive, unproductive, unreceptive, vegetative, vindictive. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-e-i-n-n-p-r-r-s-t-t-u-v" | |
-2 letters: representative. | |
-4 letters: entertainers, presentative, reinnervates, supervenient. | |
-5 letters: aventurines, entertainer, intenerates, interveners, parturients, penetrative, perseverate, presentient, reinnervate, spinnerette, travertines, truepennies, turnvereins, turpentines, unrestraint, vituperates. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-e-i-n-n-p-r-r-s-t-t-u-v" | |
+4 letters: unrepresentativeness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 72 65 70 72 65 73 65 6E 74 61 74 69 76 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. .-. . .--. .-. . ... . -. - .- - .. ...- . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01110010 01100101 01110000 01110010 01100101 01110011 01100101 01101110 01110100 01100001 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n r e p r e s e n t a t i v e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0072 0065 0070 0072 0065 0073 0065 006E 0074 0061 0074 0069 0076 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)55808471828471857180866786758871 |
| 1. Definition 2. Quotations: Non-fiction 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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