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What (who) is oversimplify - definition
oversimplify
(oversimplifies, oversimplifying, oversimplified)
If you say that someone is oversimplifying 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 oversimplify 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.
N-VAR
oversimplify
¦ verb (oversimplifies, oversimplifying, oversimplified) [often as adjective oversimplified] simplify (something) so much that a distorted impression of it is given.
Derivatives
oversimplification noun
oversimplified
see oversimplify
Examples of use of oversimplify
1. "He did not oversimplify," said MSNBC‘s Rachel Maddow.
2. "To call it ‘herding cats‘ would be to oversimplify it.
3. It would be wrong to oversimplify, but the point is clear.
4. Broadcast and Internet media can amplify hate or oversimplify a complex religious point.
5. We all have an urge sometimes to oversimplify tragedy, especially one of such magnitude; the question marks it raises are just too unbearable.