Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

misrepresentative

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.47 in modern English

Syllables: mis-rep-re-sen-ta-tive
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

6

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Purporting or seeming to be representative without actually being so.

Example Sentences

"When heterosexual men do engage in homosexual sex […] these practices are treated as momentary aberrations, and a good deal of work goes into explaining why they occurred and why they are misrepresentative of, or discordant with, the true sexual orientation of participants."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der. Proto-Germanic *missaz Proto-Germanic *missa- Proto-West Germanic *missa- Old English mis- Middle English mys- English mis- English representative English misrepresentative From mis- + representative.

Questions

What does misrepresentative mean?: Purporting or seeming to be representative without actually being so.
Where does misrepresentative come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der. Proto-Germanic *missaz Proto-Germanic *missa- Proto-West Germanic *missa- Old English mis- Middle English mys- English mis- English representative English misrepresentative From mis- + representative.

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