Stereotyped
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Stereotyped is a verb meaning simple past and past participle of stereotype.
Meaning
simple past and past participle of stereotype.
More Meanings
- Having a certain stereotype.
- Printed from stereotype plates.
- Unoriginal; stereotypical.
Example Sentences
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.
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.
Synonyms for stereotyped
Depending on context, synonyms include conventional, stereotypical, unimaginative, stereotypic.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include conventional, unimaginative, typical, standard, antiquated, outdated.
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