nonrepresentative

adjective

non·​rep·​re·​sen·​ta·​tive ˌnän-ˌre-pri-ˈzen-tə-tiv 

: not representative: such as

a

: not serving as a typical or characteristic example

a nonrepresentative sample

b

: not of, based on, or constituting a government in which the many are represented by persons chosen from among them usually by election

nonrepresentative governments

Examples of nonrepresentative in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In open session, the board heard reports on summer school and district demographics, and approved raises and a benefits increase for Classified Confidential, Supervisory, and Management nonrepresentative groups retroactive to July 1, 2022. —Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2023

In those cases, small, nonrepresentative subsets of users self-select to curate material, and each one can see what the others are doing. —Gilad Edelman, Wired, 1 Sep. 2021

The episode is perfect insight into mainstream American views of othered places — Africa or Asia, New Orleans or Compton — a story limned by limited outsiders and thus nonrepresentative, objectified and objectionable. —Tunde Wey, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2018

Word History

First Known Use

1855, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for nonrepresentative

• unrepresentative
• argumentative
• representative
• augmentative
• fermentative
• presentative
• preventative
• tentative