The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stereotype \Ste"re*o*type\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stereotyped; p. pr. & vb. n. Stereotyping.] [Cf. F. st['e]r['e]otyper.]
To prepare for printing in stereotype; to make the stereotype plates of; as, to stereotype the Bible.
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Fig.: To make firm or permanent; to fix.
Powerful causes tending to stereotype and aggravate the poverty of old conditions.
--Duke of Argyll (1887).
Stereotyped \Ste"re*o*typed\, a.
Formed into, or printed from, stereotype plates.
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Fig.: Formed in a fixed, unchangeable manner; as, stereotyped opinions.
Our civilization, with its stereotyped ways and smooth conventionalities.
--J. C. Shairp.
Wiktionary
1 Having a certain stereotype. 2 print from stereotype plates. 3 unoriginal; stereotypical. v
(en-past of: stereotype)
WordNet
adj. lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality; "stereotyped phrases of condolence"; "even his profanity was unimaginative" [syn: stereotypic, stereotypical, unimaginative]
Usage examples of "stereotyped".
And how utterly fallacious the stereotyped notion that the teachings of Anarchism, or certain exponents of these teachings, are responsible for the acts of political violence.
The same process of destroying the heroic convention was further promoted by the ruthless analysis of the psychological workings that result in the display of courage, which are composed of vanity, lack of imagination, and stereotyped thinking.
This incident is stereotyped in the ballads and occurs in an example in the Romaic.
Up until this point the characters in comedic manga had always been highly simplified and stereotyped.
Among us, much of the social judgement of Bodge upon the relations of men to women is the stereotyped opinion of the land.
If touching an animal provides an input signal to its nervous system, and this is all that is required to generate a stereotyped response, no mediation beyond some relatively simple reflex pathway is necessary.
He desired to be certain, at least, that he was here, in the low-studded, cross-beamed, oaken-panelled parlour, and not in some other spot, which had stereotyped itself into his senses.
Learning in Babylonia seems, however, to have become stereotyped and non-progressive, long before the Greeks first came into contact with it.