OVERSIMPLIFY meaning: Reduce complexity excessively, losing nuance

We found 20 dictionaries that define the word oversimplify:

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oversimplify: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
oversimplify: Merriam-Webster
oversimplify: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
oversimplify: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
oversimplify: Collins English Dictionary
oversimplify: Vocabulary.com
Oversimplify, oversimplify: Wordnik
oversimplify: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
oversimplify: Wiktionary
oversimplify: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
oversimplify: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
oversimplify: Infoplease Dictionary
oversimplify: Dictionary.com
oversimplify: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
oversimplify: Rhymezone
oversimplify: FreeDictionary.org
oversimplify: Mnemonic Dictionary
oversimplify: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ verb: To explain or present something in a way that excludes important information for the sake of brevity, or of making the explanation or presentation easy to understand.

Similar:

simplify, desimplify, water down, essentialize, underexplain, explain away, spell out, spell it out, abbreviate, understate, more...

Opposite:

complexify, complicate, elaborate, detail

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