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oversimplifyo‧ver‧sim‧pli‧fy /ˌəʊvəˈsɪmplɪfaɪ $ ˌoʊvər-/ verb (past tense and past participle oversimplified, present participle oversimplifying) [intransitive, transitive]   VERB TABLEoversimplify |
| Present | I, you, we, they | oversimplify | | he, she, it | oversimplifies | | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | oversimplified | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have oversimplified | | he, she, it | has oversimplified | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had oversimplified | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will oversimplify | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have oversimplified |
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| Present | I | am oversimplifying | | he, she, it | is oversimplifying | | you, we, they | are oversimplifying | | Past | I, he, she, it | was oversimplifying | | you, we, they | were oversimplifying | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been oversimplifying | | he, she, it | has been oversimplifying | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been oversimplifying | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be oversimplifying | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been oversimplifying |
- Elder's article greatly oversimplifies the causes of the current crisis.
- I know I'm oversimplifying, but these are the values on which I try to base my decisions.
- There's a tendency in news reports to oversimplify complex issues to make the news more entertaining.
- Again the relationship between curriculum and culture is oversimplified.
- Although often oversimplified or oversold, some of the principles of the human potential movement bear on business organizations.
- An oversimplified but instructive point can be made by considering the fate of carbohydrates transported to the lunar base from Earth.
- It would be a grave error to oversimplify any of these outcomes.
- Oh how she oversimplifies her history.
- The interpretation of the complex world of human affairs in terms of an experimental analysis is no doubt often oversimplified.
- The picture of conservation presented here is somewhat oversimplified.
- Unfortunately, though this description tells part of the truth, it is greatly oversimplified.
to make something seem simpler than it really is► oversimplify · There's a tendency in news reports to oversimplify complex issues to make the news more entertaining.· I know I'm oversimplifying, but these are the values on which I try to base my decisions. ► simplistic an opinion or way of thinking about something that is simplistic treats difficult things in too simple a way: · a simplistic 'more is better' philosophybe simplistic to: · His critics say it may have been overly simplistic to use only two experimental methods. · It would be simplistic to suggest that the Bible promotes male domination. ► generalize also generalise British to say that something is true of all the people in a group simply because it is true of some of them: · I know I shouldn't generalize, but I do think men find it hard to show their feelings.generalize from: · The study group was very small, and it's hard to generalize from just a few cases.generalize about: · The polls show that it is difficult to generalize about which issues were most important to voters. ► see things in black and white if someone sees things in black and white , they tend to judge people in a very simple way as being either completely bad or completely good, completely right or completely wrong etc: · My son sees life in black and white. To him, the world is full of greedy capitalists and underpaid workers. to describe something in a way that is too simple and ignores many facts:  To describe all these people as refugees is to oversimplify the situation.—oversimplification /ˌəʊvəsɪmplɪfɪˈkeɪʃən $ ˌoʊvər-/ noun [countable, uncountable] |