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.
Too often the spectrum of theological parties in the early twentieth century has been obscured by an oversimplified conservative-liberal dichotomy.
A better, but still oversimplified system, is a typical telephone line that allows the sender to be verbally interrupted by the listener at any time.
The author has presented us with an oversimplified, confused, and unpersuasive analysis.
But this is to offer an oversimplified picture.
The issue may be put in oversimplified terms.
Here are two examples, oversimplified for brevity and intended only schematically, to illustrate the sort of relations proposed among cognitive structures.
What might serve as good teaching cases in academic bioethics courses are often greatly oversimplified in order to illustrate theoretical distinctions and points.
Their simulation contains precise (although greatly oversimplified) assumptions about a set of relevant parameters, a learning algorithm, and the primary linguistic data.
