- 1刻板印象中的、典型（負面意味）的、樣板化的。跟中性的 typical（一般的、常見的）差在：stereotypical 帶「這印象太扁平、太懶惰」的批評意味
Stereotypical describes a person, thing, or picture that matches the fixed, over-simple image people carry about a group. 'A stereotypical American tourist', 'the stereotypical image of a scientist', 'stereotypical gender roles'. Two important points. First, it does not mean 'typical'. Typical means genuinely common, close to average, and it is neutral. Stereotypical means fitting the cliché in people's heads, which may or may not match reality — and saying it usually carries a small . Second, watch where the criticism lands. When you say 'a stereotypical Englishman', you are not always attacking the Englishman; more often you are pointing at the flat, lazy picture itself. That is why the word appears so often before words like image, view, portrayal, role, character, idea — the noun is usually a representation, not a real person. Register is neutral-to-formal: normal in essays, reviews, news and classroom talk. Friends chatting would more likely just say 'so cliché' or 'so typical'. Adverb form: stereotypically.
From the word’s history
stereotype + -ical.
stereotype（刻板印象）加 -ical，刻板的、老套的。
組成stereotype + -ical. The stereotype half is a printing word: Greek stereos 'solid' + typos 'a stamped mark', meaning the solid metal plate a printer used to strike out identical copies of a page. The -ical ending is the ordinary English way of turning a noun into an adjective (history → historical, magic → magical); it arrived through Latin and French as -ic plus -al, and English fused the two. So: 'of the kind that comes off the same plate every time'.
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- stereotypethe noun and verb this adjective is built on
- stereosame Greek stereos, 'solid'
- typicalshares typos, the stamp — but stays neutral, which is exactly the contrast to learn
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
stereotypicaladj/ˌstɛɹ.iː.əˈtɪp.ɪ.kəl/
- 1
Pertaining to a stereotype; conventional.
- There were a lot of young girls, in their early-twenties she guessed, many of them either Gothed up in thick black mascara and black lip stick, others looking like stereotypical Beat Girls in black rollnecks and jeans.
- A drag queen may not comfortably fit the stereotypical homesteader mold. In the 19th century, homesteaders were Western pioneers who built new lives from necessity; on TikTok, the most popular homesteaders are often parents with young families or those with a lifelong connection to the practice, which often include so-called “tradwives,” or women who play a stereotypically gendered role in their family.
- 2
Banal, commonplace, and clichéd because of overuse.
- I was disappointed by the stereotypical the-butler-did-it ending.
- 3
Relating to stereotypy.
- Tics are brief, stereotypical behaviors that are initiated by an unconscious urge that can be temporarily suppressed.
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