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mitigated

mitigated adjective: lessened, reduced, or diminished, and thereby made better, improved. Also the simple past and past participle of mitigate.

Adjective

mitigated (not comparable)

  1. Lessened, reduced, or diminished, and thereby made better, improved.
    • Well, though many an arraigned mortal has in hopes of mitigated penalty pleaded guilty to horrible actions, did ever anybody seriously confess to envy?1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd ch 12
    • Generally speaking, in the summer the ore from Kiruna is sent to Narvik, and that from Gällivare to Luleå, but, as Luleå is not ice-free (as is Narvik), all traffic in the winter must go to the latter, though this is to some extent mitigated by the fact that the output of the mines tends to be...1958 April, M. D. Greville, “Norway's Most Northerly Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 240

Also used as

mitigated is also the simple past and past participle of mitigate.

mitigated meaning in Bengali

mitigated in Bengali

প্রশমিত

Words formed from mitigated

Questions about mitigated

What does mitigated mean?
Mitigated means lessened, reduced, or diminished, and thereby made better, improved.
What is mitigated in Bengali?
Mitigated in Bengali is প্রশমিত. See Mitigated meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is mitigated?
Mitigated is an adjective.

Words near mitigated in the dictionary

  1. mitigable
  2. mitigant
  3. mitigants
  4. mitigatable
  5. mitigate
  6. mitigated
  7. mitigatedly
  8. mitigates
  9. mitigatest
  10. mitigateth
  11. mitigating

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mitigated (page history and authors); mitigated (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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