Usually means: Reducing complexity excessively; overly simplistic.
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  1. oversimple: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. oversimple: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. oversimple: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. oversimple: Collins English Dictionary
  5. oversimple: Wiktionary
  6. oversimple: Dictionary.com
  7. oversimple: Dictionary/thesaurus

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adjective:  Excessively simple; lacking the necessary complexity.

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