to oversimplify
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6.3
- verb
- /ˌoʊvərˈsɪmplɪfaɪ/
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sobresimplificar
- You're oversimplifying a complex issue, aren't you, Senator?
- grossly oversimplified
- tend to oversimplify
- oversimplifies the situation
So this is among books that are not oversimplifying the world, right?
- So this is among books that are not oversimplifying the world, right?
- A lot of people speak in bumper stickers and they oversimplify the complexity of the truth.
- I know I'm super oversimplifying it, but but we're in this place now.
- Like I do a lot of work to try to make sure that by the time it gets to my level, it's not oversimplifying something that an expert would dislike.
- So what these researchers did is to oversimplify things, but to cut to the point, they made it transmissible through the air.
- So we can kind of oversimplify that it's not controlled.
- But kind of oversimplifying the world, what if we later want to find Alice?
- The third is that what we see people doing typically is oversimplifying.
- But just to boil it down to birth order is, you know, it oversimplifies things in science is not going to.
- They're oversimplifying the the way things work because the it's nice, the stories are nice.
- All we have to do is think of a sub problem in which I'll oversimplify this, but basically function approximation is useful.
- But as neuroscientist, academic neuroscientist ourselves, we, we know you know, you are oversimplifying things.
Examples
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When discussing climate change, it is easy to oversimplify the science, but this can result in misguided policies.
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I think counsel tends to oversimplify the issue somewhat.
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But if we reduce politics to nothing more than election hoopla, we oversimplify what it really means.
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The messages that were out there by and large oversimplified messages focused on the damaging consequences of stress.
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Knowledge about these issues is necessarily oversimplified by the sound-bite approach to news coverage and political debate.
Academic text (1997) -
Beyond that, Holocaust simulations usually oversimplify complex events, thus distorting students' grasp of historical reality.
Academic text (2011) -
And actually a lot of people have oversimplified what he's been doing and what he's seeing from this.
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Many people tend to oversimplify the causes of poverty, which leads to misunderstandings about the solutions.
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The film oversimplifies the historical events, causing viewers to miss important details about the time period.
Synonyms
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4.6
To change facts so they become false or misleading
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8.0
To describe a person or thing unfairly
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8.0
To make a general rule from a few cases and ignore important differences
Shown in a false way that gives people the wrong idea
Antonyms
How Simple
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6.3
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2.5
- US
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3.0
∞
1.0
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4.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Oversimplify comes from the parts over- (meaning 'too much'), simple (meaning 'not complicated'), and the ending -ify ('make'). So, to oversimplify is to make something 'too simple', which can give a wrong or incomplete picture.