mitigation

/mɪtɪˈɡeɪʃən/

mitigation noun: a reduction or decrease of something harmful or unpleasant.

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Noun

mitigation (countable and uncountable, plural mitigations)

A reduction or decrease of something harmful or unpleasant.
- Two golden hours, in which the astonishing news of the intended party was revealed to Louisa, with all of its contrivances, expenses, and mitigations, so far as they were elucidated, were given and said to be "done in her honour;"...1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 213
- One possible drought mitigation strategy for Afghanistan is to divert excess water from water-rich river basins to water-scarce river basins in cases where this is technologically, economically and environmentally feasible.2004, Bhattacharya, K., Azizi, P. M., Shobair, S, S,, Mohsini, M. Y., Drought impacts and potential for their mitigation in southern and western Afghanistan, IWMI

mitigation meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

mitigation in Tamil

தணிப்பு, மட்டுப்படுத்துதல்

mitigation in Urdu

reduction of something harmful: تخفیف

mitigation in Bengali

reduction of something harmful: আসান aśan

mitigation in Malayalam

lessening, alleviation, reduction: കുറയ്ക്കൽ, ശമനം, ശമഥം, പ്രശാന്തി, ലഘൂകരണം, ഹ്രാസം
extenuation, explanation, excuse: ലഘൂകരണം, അപരാധലഘൂകരണം, മയപ്പെടുത്തൽ, സമാധാനം, വിശദീകരണം, ദോഷാച്ഛാദനം

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mitigation in Odia: ପ୍ରଶମନ, ଶମନ
mitigation in Sanskrit: शम śama
mitigation in Nepali: प्रशमन
mitigation in Arabic: تخفيف
mitigation in Indonesian: mitigasi
mitigation in Vietnamese: sự làm nhẹ, sự làm dịu, sự giảm thiểu

Examples of mitigation in a sentence

They're telling us that climate change is a done deal — that now we're into mitigation and adaptation instead of prevention.
It is therefore dealing with pollution in two ways—suppression and mitigation.
Gleefully and legally intruding upon the sanctum of the wealthy linksters, we walked the mitigation meadows.

All 19 example sentences with mitigation

Forms of mitigation

plural	mitigations

Plural of mitigation: mitigations

Origin of mitigation

From Middle French mitigation, from Latin mītigātiō.

Words formed from mitigation

radiomitigation

Words that rhyme with mitigation

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Questions about mitigation

What does mitigation mean?: Mitigation means a reduction or decrease of something harmful or unpleasant.
What is mitigation in Tamil?: Mitigation in Tamil is தணிப்பு, மட்டுப்படுத்துதல். See Mitigation meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is mitigation?: Mitigation is a noun.
How do you pronounce mitigation?: Mitigation is pronounced /mɪtɪˈɡeɪʃən/.
What is the plural of mitigation?: The plural of mitigation is mitigations.

Words near mitigation in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: mitigation (page history and authors); mitigation (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mitigation (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); mitigation (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); शम (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); mitigation (Nepali, 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.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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