OVERSIMPLIFY


Meaning of OVERSIMPLIFY in English

(oversimplifies, ~ing, oversimplified)

If you say that someone is ~ing 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 ~ the situation...

VERB: V n

oversimplified

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

ADJ: usu ADJ n

oversimplification (oversimplifications)

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

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