A conventional, formulaic, and often oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of (a person or a group of people).

(transitive) To make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype. / (transitive, printing) To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.

plural of stereotype

simple past tense and past participle of stereotype

Having a certain stereotype. / Printed from stereotype plates. / Unoriginal; stereotypical.

plural of stereotyper

One who makes stereotype plates, or works in a stereotype foundry. / A person who stereotypes others.

Pertaining to a stereotype; conventional / Banal, commonplace and clichéd because of overuse. / Relating to stereotypy.

present participle of stereotype

In a stereotypical manner or way.