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overrepresentative

overrepresentative adjective: excessively representative.

Adjective

overrepresentative (comparative more overrepresentative, superlative most overrepresentative)

  1. Excessively representative.
    • The survey respondents were overrepresentative of the middle and upper classes.

Forms of overrepresentative

comparativemore overrepresentative
superlativemost overrepresentative

Origin of overrepresentative

over- + representative

Questions about overrepresentative

What does overrepresentative mean?
Overrepresentative means excessively representative.
What part of speech is overrepresentative?
Overrepresentative is an adjective.

Words near overrepresentative in the dictionary

  1. overreporting
  2. overreports
  3. overrepresent
  4. overrepresentation
  5. overrepresentations
  6. overrepresentative
  7. overrepresented
  8. overrepresenting
  9. overrepresents
  10. overrepression
  11. overrequest

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