dumbing-downnoun [ U ]
uk/ˌdʌm.ɪŋˈdaʊn/us/ˌdʌm.ɪŋˈdaʊn/informal disapprovingthe act of making something simpler and easier for people to understand, especially in order to make it more popular:
the dumbing-down of television
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Elaborating, specifying and simplifying
- broaden
- complicate
- depth
- detail
- dilate
- dilate on/upon sth
- dumb
- expand
- expand on sth
- expansive
- expatiate
- flesh
- flesh sth out
- generalization
- predigested
- reductive
- simplify
- spec
- specification
- split
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