stereotypically
- adverb
- /ˌstɛrɪəˈtɪpɪkli/
- My childhood image of God was stereotypically masculine: he was controlling, hierarchical, jealous, and vengeful.
- stereotypically masculine
- stereotypically feminine
- stereotypically male
You're promoting the old age vibe of women being stereotypically housewives.
- You're promoting the old age vibe of women being stereotypically housewives.
- And, you know, stereotypically, we're not as affectionate and kind as, as our female counterparts.
- So he is a redhead that is not stereotypically a pale white redhead, even though fan art often times shows them.
Examples
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Feminist writers call for activity and language in the classroom that demote stereotypically male notions of science and present multiple perspectives.
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However, their duties would be limited to stereotypically feminine jobs.
Academic text (2015) -
I could dress her in boys clothes and take her to football games and, you know, do whatever parents stereotypically do with boys.
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I, personally, am probably one of the least stereotypically feminine women I know.
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And it's not a stereotypically fall color story, but it doesn't look out of place for fall.
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Very introspective and trying to reflect on yourself, which in itself is a stereotypically feminine thing to do.
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First, I'm a guy, and we stereotypically don't like needing others to help us.
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As a result of normal cognitive processes, individuals may be stereotypically classified as members of identifiable social groups.
Academic text (1994) -
Additionally, students now disagreed with "Flag football is a stereotypically male sport" (Statement 1).
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In many movies, the characters are represented stereotypically as either the hero or the villain.
Synonyms
In the usual way for a person, thing, or group
Antonyms
How Stereotypical
Surface Forms
Morphology
stereotypically = stereotypical (semi-transparent) = stereotype + ical + ly
The adverb is a regular '-ly' formation from 'stereotypical', so the manner meaning is directly recoverable from the base adjective.
Etymology
Stereotypically comes from stereotype, a word used in printing for a solid plate that made the same image again and again, from Greek stereos 'solid' and typos 'mark' and related to English type. So to act stereotypically is to behave in a fixed, repeated, or overly simple way.