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oversimplify

oversimplify 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.

Verb

oversimplify (third-person singular simple present oversimplifies, present participle oversimplifying, simple past and past participle oversimplified)

  1. 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.
    • But the report stresses that this comparison, based purely on the total transport performed, oversimplifies the picture. The kinds of work performed by rail and rail transport are not identical.1964 June, “News and Comment: Only 26 per cent of freight on rail”, in Modern Railways, page 369

oversimplify meaning in Kannada

oversimplify in Kannada

ಅತಿ ಲಘುವಾಗಿ ಪರಿಗಣಿಸು, ಅತಿ ಸರಳಗೊಳಿಸು, ಅತಿ ಲಘುವಾಗಿ ಕಾಣುವಂತೆ ಮಾಡು

Forms of oversimplify

third-person singular presentoversimplifies
present participleoversimplifying
past participleoversimplified
pastoversimplified

Past tense of oversimplify: oversimplified

Origin of oversimplify

From over- + simplify.

Words formed from oversimplify

Questions about oversimplify

What does oversimplify mean?
Oversimplify means 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.
What is oversimplify in Kannada?
Oversimplify in Kannada is ಅತಿ ಲಘುವಾಗಿ ಪರಿಗಣಿಸು, ಅತಿ ಸರಳಗೊಳಿಸು, ಅತಿ ಲಘುವಾಗಿ ಕಾಣುವಂತೆ ಮಾಡು. See Oversimplify meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is oversimplify?
Oversimplify is a verb.
What is the past tense of oversimplify?
The past tense of oversimplify is oversimplified.

Words near oversimplify in the dictionary

  1. oversimplifications
  2. oversimplified
  3. oversimplifier
  4. oversimplifiers
  5. oversimplifies
  6. oversimplify
  7. oversimplifying
  8. oversimplistic
  9. oversimplistically
  10. oversimply
  11. oversincere

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oversimplify (page history and authors); oversimplify (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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