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misrepresentative

misrepresentative adjective: purporting or seeming to be representative without actually being so.

Adjective

misrepresentative (not comparable)

  1. Purporting or seeming to be representative without actually being so.
    • When heterosexual men do engage in homosexual sex […] these practices are treated as momentary aberrations, and a good deal of work goes into explaining why they occurred and why they are misrepresentative of, or discordant with, the true sexual orientation of participants.2015, Jane Ward, Not Gay, New York University Press, →ISBN, page 7

Origin of misrepresentative

From mis- + representative.

Questions about misrepresentative

What does misrepresentative mean?
Misrepresentative means purporting or seeming to be representative without actually being so.
What part of speech is misrepresentative?
Misrepresentative is an adjective.

Words near misrepresentative in the dictionary

  1. misreports
  2. misrepresent
  3. misrepresentation
  4. misrepresentational
  5. misrepresentations
  6. misrepresentative
  7. misrepresented
  8. misrepresenter
  9. misrepresenters
  10. misrepresenting
  11. misrepresentings

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