# stereotyped

Pronunciation: US say "STER-ee-uh-typt" /ˈstɛɹ.i.əˌtaɪpt/; UK say "STE-ree-uh-typt" /ˈstɛ.ɹi.əˌtaɪpt/

## Adjective

1. Lacking originality and conforming to a tired, overused pattern rather than offering anything fresh.
   - Simple: Boring and overused, with nothing new or fresh about it.
   - _The campaign relied on stereotyped images of suburban family life._
   - _Reviewers complained that the dialogue felt stereotyped and lifeless._
3. Marked by a fixed, established pattern that repeats in the same form and does not vary.
   - Simple: Always done in the same fixed way, without changing.
   - _Researchers recorded the animal's stereotyped pacing along the same path for hours._
   - _The ceremony had a stereotyped order that every village followed exactly._
4. Produced by printing from solid metal plates cast from a mold of set type.
   - Simple: Printed using solid metal plates instead of loose type.
   - _Nineteenth-century publishers favored stereotyped editions for their durability._
   - _Each stereotyped page came from a single cast plate rather than standing type._

## Verb

2. Simple past and past participle of stereotype. — simple past and past participle of stereotype
   - Simple: Simple past and past participle of stereotype. Use it for labeling that already happened.
   - _Early films stereotyped entire ethnic groups in crude, mocking ways._
   - _Workers in that trade were often stereotyped as uneducated._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/stereotyped (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).