misrepresentative

misrepresentative

English

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.

    Adjective

    misrepresentative (not comparable)

    1. Purporting or seeming to be representative without actually being so.
      • 2015, Jane Ward, Not Gay, New York University Press, →ISBN, page 7:
        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.
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