Mitigate

Quick meaning: Mitigate is a verb meaning (transitive, of problems or flaws) To reduce, lessen, or decrease and thereby to make less severe or easier to bear.

Meaning

(transitive, of problems or flaws) To reduce, lessen, or decrease and thereby to make less severe or easier to bear.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To downplay.
2. (intransitive, proscribed) To give force or effect toward preventing a problem.
3. (obsolete) Mitigated, alleviated.

Example Sentences

We've mitigated against the chance of flooding.

Then they tell us that vaccination will mitigate the disease that it will make it milder.

Then I discovered the brilliance of the landscape around was mitigated by blue spectacles.

But then crashworthiness is not about preventing accidents, but about mitigating their consequences.

Word Forms

• mitigates
• mitigating
• mitigated

Synonyms for mitigate

Depending on context, synonyms include alleviate, check, diminish, ease, lighten, mollify.

Antonyms for mitigate

Common opposites include aggrandize, aggravate, exacerbate, incite, increase, intensify.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include extenuate, palliate, alleviate, relief, easing, assuage.

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