'nonrepresentative' definitions:
Definition of 'nonrepresentative'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Not standing for something else [syn: nonrepresentative, unsymbolic] [ant: representative]
Definition of 'nonrepresentative'
From: GCIDE
- nonrepresentative \nonrepresentative\ adj.
- 1. Not standing for something else. Opposite of representative.
- Syn: unsymbolic. [WordNet 1.5]
- 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. [PJC]