unrepresentative

adjective

un·​rep·​re·​sen·​ta·​tive ˌən-ˌre-pri-ˈzen-tə-tiv 

: not representative: such as

a

: not typical or characteristic : atypical

an unrepresentative sample

We only claim that our town is not all that unrepresentative of America in its mixture of idealism and weakness, ambitions and muddles …

—Judith Martin

b

: not representing an electorate

an unrepresentative judiciary

unrepresentativeness noun

Examples of unrepresentative in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The majority of existing datasets are small, unrepresentative, or incomplete. —Ulrich Boser, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024

Many lawmakers cast that race as unrepresentative of the trend, noting that Dingell spent months longer than Crockett locking down support. —Andrew Solender, Axios, 21 Nov. 2024

And that panel, while unrepresentative of Black America, was perfectly representative of how almost all of the spokespeople in symbolic capitalist spaces are. —Sean Illing, Vox, 9 Nov. 2024

Polling purists understandably object to such surveys as unrepresentative and unreliable. —W. Joseph Campbell, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1829, in the meaning defined above