dumbs down
Makes too easy
To dumb down is to simplify something, usually by removing complexity or intellectual substance to make it accessible to a wider audience.
The phrase often carries disapproval—implying the simplification goes too far or insults the audience's intelligence: The network dumbed down the science documentary until it said almost nothing.
Critics accused the curriculum of being dumbed down.
- translateExpress in another language
- baby talkSimplified speech for infants
- simplifyMake less complex
- trivializeMake light of
- dilutionReduction in concentration
misrepresent · reduction · approachable · pander · lowest common denominator · mass appeal · for dummies · distort · comprehensible · digestible · edit · spoon-feed · scaffolding · superficiality · plain language · abbreviate · streamline · paraphrase
- oversimplificationgeneralizes, stereotypes, reduces, reductive, essentializes
dumbs downelevates
Raises in position
complicates · sophisticates · intellectualizes · enriches · challenges
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