STEREOTYPED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stereotyped mean? 

• STEREOTYPED (adjective)
  The adjective STEREOTYPED has 1 sense:

1. lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality

  Familiarity information: STEREOTYPED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STEREOTYPED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality

Synonyms:

stereotyped; stereotypic; stereotypical; unimaginative

Context example:

even his profanity was unimaginative

Similar:

conventional (unimaginative and conformist)

 Context examples 

A disorder most often diagnosed in the pediatric years in which the individual displays marked impairment in social interaction and a repetitive, stereotyped pattern of behavior.

(Asperger Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

A disorder characterized by marked impairments in social interaction and communication accompanied by a pattern of repetitive, stereotyped behaviors and activities.

(Autism, NCI Thesaurus)

The affected individual may also exhibit repetitive and stereotyped patterns of behavior similar to autism.

(Childhood Disintegrative Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

An involuntary, compulsive, repetitive stereotyped movement, usually of the face or shoulders.

(Muscular Tic, NCI Thesaurus)

These slips were printed in stereotyped forms and he had received hundreds of them—as many as a dozen or more on each of his earlier manuscripts.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

This leads to a reduction of spontaneous locomotion and aggressiveness, suppression of conditioned response, antagonism of stereotyped behaviour and hyperactivity induced by amphetamines.

(Molindone Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

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 blood-curdling incidents devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

She would not hand him a stereotyped rejection slip, nor would she inform him that lack of preference for his work did not necessarily imply lack of merit in his work.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

His own work that he sent in was returned, along with a stereotyped slip informing him that the staff supplied all the copy that was needed.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And their refusals had been cold-blooded, automatic, stereotyped.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)