mitigation

mitigation is a 10-letter English word with 4 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of mitigating, or the state of being mitigated; abatement or diminution of anything painful, harsh, severe, afflictive, or calamitous; as, the mitigation of pain, grief, rigor, severity, punishment, or penalty. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 16 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act of mitigating, or the state of being mitigated; abatement or diminution of anything painful, harsh, severe, afflictive, or calamitous; as, the mitigation of pain, grief, rigor, severity, punishment, or penalty.
2. noun. the action of lessening in severity or intensity

   "the object being control or moderation of economic depressions"

   Synonyms: moderation

3. noun. to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious

   Synonyms: extenuation, palliation

4. noun. a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances

   Synonyms: extenuation

Synonyms

moderation, extenuation, palliation

Common word forms

mitigations

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