OVERSIMPLIFY


Meaning of OVERSIMPLIFY in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ oʊvə(r)sɪmplɪfaɪ ]

( oversimplifies, oversimplifying, oversimplified)

If you say that someone is oversimplifying something, you mean that they are describing or explaining it so simply that what they say is no longer true or reasonable.

One should not oversimplify the situation...

VERB : V n

• over‧sim‧pli‧fied

...an oversimplified view of mathematics and the sciences.

ADJ : usu ADJ n

• over‧sim‧pli‧fi‧ca‧tion

(oversimplifications)

There is an old saying that ‘we are what we eat’. Obviously this is an oversimplification.

N-VAR

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