The Collaborative International Dictionary
nonrepresentative
nonrepresentative \nonrepresentative\ adj.
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Not standing for something else. Opposite of representative.
Syn: unsymbolic.
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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.
Wiktionary
nonrepresentative
a. Not representative.
WordNet
nonrepresentative
adj. not standing for something else [syn: unsymbolic] [ant: representative]
Usage examples of "nonrepresentative".
How could a few nonrepresentative states—states that do not have the support of their people—backing an alien power stand against that?
The present—prior—system of government is monstrously nonrepresentative in everything except name, and excruciatingly inefficient.