Word forms: 3rd person singular presenttense oversimplifies, present participle oversimplifying, past tense, past participle oversimplified
verb
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 noun]
To judge trips as if they're successes or failures may be oversimplifying things. [VERB noun]
oversimplifiedadjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
...an oversimplified view of mathematics and the sciences.