oversimplify

Object

• situation: One of the main follies of dealing with the commercial utilization of space is the desire to oversimplify the situation.
• matter: To oversimplify matters radically, the dialectic here is this.
• model: Hal Pawson, however, argues that this oversimplifies the Dutch model.
• view: Some of the database applications now on the market may also lull users into an oversimplified view of databases.
• issue: On the whole, I think many soaps etc tend to oversimplify the issue.
• problem: To pin the blame on " more feet on sensitive terrain " is to oversimplify the problem.

Used with why or when

• what: Well, to oversimplify vastly what happened in the 19th century, most people listened only to contemporary music.

Modifying Another Word

• grossly: The first explanation given here will be grossly oversimplified.
• somewhat: Summary of the application The above is a somewhat oversimplified description of the hypertext technology used in Locator.
• greatly: At the risk of greatly oversimplifying literary history, these were the three responses available to writers in nineteenth-century France.
• not: Express concepts in the simplest terms and define technical terms and jargon, but do not oversimplify.
• vastly: Well, to oversimplify vastly what happened in the 19th century, most people listened only to contemporary music.
• often: It seems to me however he often oversimplifies for the sake of polemic.

Preposition: in

• way: The above was a little oversimplified in three ways.