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simˈplistic, a.
[f. simple B. 6 or simple a.]
1. Of or pertaining to a simplist or to simples.
1860in Worcester (citing Wilkinson).
2. Of the nature of, or characterized by, (extreme) simplicity. Now usu. with the connotation of excessive or misleading simplification.
a1881J. F. Clarke (Worc.), The facts of nature and of life are more apt to be complex than simple. Simplistic theories are generally one-sided and partial. 1934Eng. Studies XVI. 77 Some of the attempts at elucidating the origin of slang phrases do not seem very successful... It hardly admits of such a simplistic explanation. 1954Encounter July 21/1 The Pluralists oppose the simplistic interpretations which we..inherit..from Walter Millis' accounts of war as the product of war-mongering. 1967Guardian 3 July 6/1 To see the issue as an attack on middle-class values..is so much simplistic and dangerous nonsense. 1976T. Stoppard Dirty Linen 40 She's quite right... It is simplistic to speak of malice. 1980Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts Mar. 215/2 It was quite evident that these rather simplistic models were inadequate.
Hence simˈplistically adv.
1963F. W. Frey in L. W. Pye Communications & Political Devel. xvii. 307 Changes which we simplistically call Westernization. 1974Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Jan. 65/1 The German Democratic Republic from the first made Heine one of its classics, though sometimes reading his politics simplistically in the process. 1978Nature 23 Mar. 306/1 Their basic chain mechanisms can be written simplistically as [etc.]. |