stereotyped

1. 1
   adjective

   Boring and overused, with nothing new or fresh about it.

   Like a cookie cutter that makes every cookie the exact same shape.

   The movie's stereotyped villains made the whole plot feel predictable.

   Critics dismissed her new novel as stereotyped and unoriginal.

   Similarhackneyed, trite, formulaic, stock, banal

   Oppositeoriginal, fresh, novel, innovative

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2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of stereotype. Use it for labeling that already happened.

   People stereotyped him the moment they heard his accent.

   She felt stereotyped from her very first day at the new job.

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3. 3
   adjective

   Always done in the same fixed way, without changing.

   Like a dance where every step is always the same, every single time.

   The bird's courtship dance follows a stereotyped set of movements.

   Over the years his morning routine had become rigidly stereotyped.

   Similarrepetitive, fixed, invariable, ritualized, set

   Oppositevariable, varied, flexible

4. 4
   adjective

   Printed using solid metal plates instead of loose type.

   Like a stamp that prints the same page over and over.

   The firm sold cheap stereotyped reprints of popular novels.

   Stereotyped editions let publishers reprint a book without resetting any type.

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