nonrepresentative

Adjective
Synonyms: unsymbolic

Open English WordNet

Adjective (1)

  1. not standing for something elseSynonyms: unsymbolicOpposite representative
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

nonrepresentative adjective

1. Not standing for something else. Opposite of representative. Syn. — unsymbolic.

2. Not giving a true representation of the characteristics of a group; — of a sample or subgroup of a group; as, the weather we had in the summer of 1996 gave a nonrepresentative view of our normal weather. Syn. — biased, unrepresentative.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: GCIDE editors, WordNet 1.5

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