nonrepresentative

adjective

non·​rep·​re·​sen·​ta·​tive ˌnän-ˌre-pri-ˈzen-tə-tiv 

: not representative: such as

a

: not serving as a typical or characteristic example

a nonrepresentative sample

b

: not of, based on, or constituting a government in which the many are represented by persons chosen from among them usually by election

nonrepresentative governments

Examples of nonrepresentative in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In open session, the board heard reports on summer school and district demographics, and approved raises and a benefits increase for Classified Confidential, Supervisory, and Management nonrepresentative groups retroactive to July 1, 2022. —Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2023

In those cases, small, nonrepresentative subsets of users self-select to curate material, and each one can see what the others are doing. —Gilad Edelman, Wired, 1 Sep. 2021

The episode is perfect insight into mainstream American views of othered places — Africa or Asia, New Orleans or Compton — a story limned by limited outsiders and thus nonrepresentative, objectified and objectionable. —Tunde Wey, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2018

Word History

First Known Use

1855, in the meaning defined above