0 past simple and past participle of oversimplify
1 to describe or explain something in such a simple way that it is no longer correct or true:
The TV documentary grossly oversimplified the problem.
The authors note that attempts to apply research-based evidence on protective factors frequently tend to be oversimplified, targeting individual skills or competencies.
The oversimplified image of the brain and the redundant psychiatric descriptions were compatible at that time.
In the next approximation, an oversimplified local/global theory of the opera hall might attempt to add some of the effects of air-glass interactions.
Table 1 (first two columns) indicates the results for what we feel (from theory as well as experience) is an oversimplified view.
It will provide useful and handy refutations of the oversimplified accounts that have often been peddled.
The major drawback of this approach is that the models of lexical processing and eye-movement control are likely to be oversimplified and/ or incomplete.
A legitimate question is whether the oversimplified physiology/anatomy used to develop the global theory of synaptic field modulations is adequate as a first approximation.
Their simulation contains precise (although greatly oversimplified) assumptions about a set of relevant parameters, a learning algorithm, and the primary linguistic data.
