0 present 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.
Existing work on family, kinship, and household size and composition reflects different concerns, and so assigning pedigree risks oversimplifying contending views.
The author finds earlier historians oversimplifying the relationship between early modern theology and philosophy.
There is only one - in my opinion - oversimplifying point in the essay.
Cassell describes technology as being reductive, oversimplifying, impatient, intolerant of ambiguity, and self-augmenting.
To conclude that there has been educational convergence on the basis of similarity in the use of tools, however, puts us in danger of oversimplifying the development.
Introductory texts have a difficult task to achieve, needing to condense and summarize large areas, without oversimplifying to the extent it proves misleading.
However, it makes an oversimplifying assumption of a common, dominant trend indicator function, and differentiates technical traders by asking one key question: whether they trade following or against the trend.
Far from it being clear that all this inner disc material is lost, hypotheses or models that assume this may be oversimplifying the problem, affecting any conclusions they make.
