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

An hour before the show, Simonyan, who lives in Siberia, wandered into Cook’s office atop Millennium Gate Museum—the anomalous arch’s name.

— Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
Authorities can reconstruct routes, identify anomalous behavior, and compare activities against permit conditions long after the event itself has occurred.

— IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 16 July 2026

Definition of anomalous

Adjective

For the 18-year-old, who was diagnosed with the congenital heart condition Wolff-Parkinson-White at 15 years old, the episode wasn’t abnormal.

— Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 30 July 2026
Follow-up care at the now-familiar UCSF confirmed severe precancerous dysplasia, or abnormal cells that, if left untreated, could develop into cancer.

— Sara Moniuszko, USA Today, 30 July 2026

Definition of abnormal

Adjective

And beyond the color treatment, the sneaker also plays with premium materials and textures in a fashion that’s atypical for the 1990 retro shoe.

— Riley Jones, Footwear News, 26 July 2026
The committee is considering an atypical regulatory pathway, allowing these substances to be compounded rather than going through the full, rigorous FDA approval process.

— Sony Salzman, ABC News, 23 July 2026

Definition of atypical

Adjective

All of this self-control and self-restraint goes out the window because of how much this person is feeding pieces of you that haven’t been fed in a very long time and feeling just really reignited by that love in a way that maybe feels deviant.

— Jack Irvin, PEOPLE, 20 July 2026
How often the crimes of a deviant cast shadows on others for years to come.

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 18 July 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

Early perimenopause typically brings irregular periods that arrive at least a week late or early, lighter or heavier flow, and hot flashes in roughly 40% of women.

— Hanna Wickes, Sacbee.com, 25 July 2026
Early perimenopause often brings irregular periods, lighter or heavier flow and hot flashes in about 40% of women.

— Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 July 2026

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