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.
I shall be accused of oversimplifying and there are dangers in that, but there are also dangers in overcomplicating.
I may have been oversimplifying the issue; it is very easy to oversimplify this sort of issue.
It is oversimplifying the matter to say that we should reduce the anomalies.
I do not think that it is oversimplifying the matter to put it in that way.
It is oversimplifying the issue to say that the interests of management and workers are always the same, because they are not.
We have recently been subjected to many fine words, albeit dangerously oversimplifying the issues affecting children.
Ackerman is probably oversimplifying matters here.
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.
