simplistic

Adjective

simplistic (comparative more simplistic, superlative most simplistic)

1. Overly simple.
   • At one time, I was extremely skeptical of such simplistic medicine until observing a reflexologist at work and finding that many of the patients showed steady improvement in cases where official medical practitioners had recommended surgery or prescribed the usual quantum of pills. Along with the...2012, Wolf D. Storl, The Herbal Lore of Wise Women and Wortcunners, page 97
   • This simplistic method of using herbs isolates the disease from the person and the chemical aspects of an herb from its overall individual therapeutic effects.2013, Lesley Tierra, Healing with the Herbs of Life
2. In a manner that simplifies a concept or issue so that its nuances and complexities are lost or important details are overlooked.
   • (Mao's) reliance on simplistic Soviet interpretations was reflected in his dismissal of Hitler as "a mere will-less puppet of the reactionary capitalists."China Crosses the Yalu: The Decision to Enter the Korean War, Stanford University Press, 1968, →ISBN, pages 211–
   • The cliché is not untrue, but, like all generalisations, it distorts reality so that overly simplistic judgments have to be tempered by a few qualifications.Jacques Lambert (1967), Latin America: Social Structure and Political Institutions, University of California Press, →ISBN, pages 107–