NONREPRESENTATIVE Synonyms: 83 Similar and Opposite Words

nonrepresentative

adjective

Definition of nonrepresentative

as in anomalous

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Recent Examples of nonrepresentative As fewer Americans answer surveys, are those who do inherently nonrepresentative? — David Frum, The Atlantic, 21 Feb. 2026 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

Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonrepresentative

Adjective

The Mobiles, attempting to play competitive pro ball, are anomalous in the present day.

— Sam Blum, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
Conversely, Zumthor’s building—however outsize, expensive, and anomalous—hides in plain sight as a piece of urban engineering, stitching together and swallowing the horizontal city whole.

— Katy Barkan, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of anomalous

Adjective

The changes are intended to make the reactor easier to build and operate while strengthening its ability to respond to abnormal conditions.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2026
Case codes to justify a search, previously optional, will be mandatory, and the audit log will be upgraded so that Flock can detect abnormal search patterns and block those users.

— The Week US, TheWeek, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of abnormal

Adjective

The upper stage of both rockets is the more atypical approach to spacecraft design, compared to other vehicles of the same launch class.

— Josh Dinner, Space.com, 8 Sep. 2026
The prosecution’s experts disagreed, saying Clancy’s description of the voice was atypical of auditory hallucinations.

— Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of atypical

Adjective

Instead, we’re presented with deviant men defined only by their fetishes, creating an uneasy imbalance that’s impossible to ignore.

— Jay Weissberg, Variety, 4 Sep. 2026
Martyn Rady, Masaryk Professor Emeritus of Central European history at University College London, who was not involved in the study, agreed that Zosia was an example of a deviant burial.

— Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of deviant

Adjective

Sabatini suggested to the jury there were possible explanations for that aberrant behavior without settling on a specific reason.

— Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 July 2026
Learning that these behaviors not only exist, but are prevalent in the animal kingdom, Page says, helps debunk what remains a widespread belief among certain humans that homosexuality and transgenderism are unnatural and aberrant.

— Mike Miller, Entertainment Weekly, 19 June 2026

Definition of aberrant

Adjective

Scrivner’s 9×9 bull has been officially scored by Boone & Crockett at 411 1/8-inches, and it was just recently declared a new Oklahoma record for a nontypical bull elk.

— Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 8 Jan. 2026
Spillers’ big nontypical whitetail sports 18 points and scored 198 2/8 inches.

— Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 9 Jan. 2023

Definition of nontypical

Adjective

If an engineer wants to model an irregular structure, such as fuel rods sitting inside metal cladding, the digital instructions needed just to describe that shape can grow too long.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2026
And it's been reported to have been used by irregular forces in the Middle East.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Sep. 2026

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