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oversimplifying

oversimplifying is the present participle and gerund of oversimplify.

Meaning of oversimplify

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

Questions about oversimplifying

What is oversimplifying the present participle and gerund of?
Oversimplifying is the present participle and gerund of oversimplify.

Words near oversimplifying in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oversimplifying (page history and authors); oversimplify (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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