Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To rid of complexity; to simplify.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

de- +‎ complexify

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word decomplexify.

Examples

  • Halfway through the meal, Michael said, over his Filet-o-Fish, "Las Vegas is perhaps about the constant attempt of humans to decomplexify complex systems."

    Microserfs Coupland, Douglas 1995

  • Its response to the tangled exigencies of the contemporary world is grounded in a willful and Procrustean tendency to reconfigure the past in such a way as to decomplexify or distort the issues which confront and environ us.

    Israelated - English Israel blogs 2009

  • He comes to a view that complexity has diminishing returns, and a change in circumstances can mean it makes economic sense for the population to decomplexify their society.

    Interconnected Matt Webb 2008

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.