Definitions For Stereotype

noun

  • A conventional or formulaic conception or image
  • An often unfair and untrue belief that many people have about all people or things with a particular characteristic

verb

  • Treat or classify according to a mental stereotype
  • To believe unfairly that all people or things with a particular characteristic are the same

Is Stereotypes a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
16
Words with Friends
16

The word Stereotype is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Stereotype in a Sentence

  • It's not fair to stereotype a whole group of people based on one person you don't like.
  • Movies have stereotyped the hooker with a heart of gold ad nauseam
  • The stereotype of the absentminded professor
  • The noble savage was a stereotype that appealed to 18th-century intellectuals, who viewed European civilization as decadent and corrupt

Synonyms for Stereotype

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