Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of stereotype
- Having a certain stereotype.
- Printed from stereotype plates.
- Unoriginal; stereotypical.
There are too many gratuitous and insulting characters, like Mary Fisher's employee, a stereotyped Latino stud, and the old people in a nursing home who are presented as unindividuated and naively happy.
1989 December 24, Elizabeth Pincus, “Screwball Glitz And Revolt Against Misogyny”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 24, page 161 more example
Yet the old-time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as “historical” in the children’s library; for the time has come for a series of newer “wonder tales” in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and bloodcurdling incident devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale.
1900 April, L[yman] Frank Baum, “Introduction”, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., published 17 May 1900, →OCLC
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivelacking spontaneity or originality or individuality
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Spanish estereotipado
- estereotipadoTranslations
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