unrepresentativeun‧rep‧re‧sen‧ta‧tive /ˌʌnreprɪˈzentətɪv/ adjective - These workers are unrepresentative of the general population.
- However, there is no reason to believe that the sample is unrepresentative in any way.
- Naturally this judgement has to be tempered by the unrepresentative nature of the sample of reports that it draws upon.
- One only has to look at the statistics to see how unrepresentative Xuxa's world is.
- Second, the telephone lists actually used for the sample were unrepresentative of the electorate.
- The problem is that they are a small sample of all criminals, and almost certainly unrepresentative.
- The result is only representative on those variables selected for the quota, and may be quite unrepresentative on other factors.
nounrepresentationrepresentativeadjectiverepresentative ≠ unrepresentativerepresentationalverbrepresent