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stereotypical

adj
/ˌstɛɹ.iː.əˈtɪp.ɪ.kəl/UK/ˌstɛɹ.i.əˈtɪp.ɪ.kəl/CA/ˌsteɹ.iː.əˈtɪp.ɪ.kəl/

Etymology

From stereotype + -ical.

  1. borrowed from stéréotype
  2. formed as stereotypical — “stereotype + -ical”

Definitions

  1. Pertaining to a stereotype

    Pertaining to a stereotype; conventional.

    • There were a lot of young girls, in their early-twenties she guessed, many of them either Gothed up in thick black mascara and black lip stick, others looking like stereotypical Beat Girls in black rollnecks and jeans.

  2. Banal, commonplace, and clichéd because of overuse.

    • I was disappointed by the stereotypical the-butler-did-it ending.

  3. Relating to stereotypy.

    • Tics are brief, stereotypical behaviors that are initiated by an unconscious urge that can be temporarily suppressed.

The neighborhood

Derived

counterstereotypical, nonstereotypical, stereotypically, unstereotypical

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at stereotypical. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at stereotypical. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at stereotypical

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA