mitigate

Other forms of mitigate

past tense

mitigated·

present participle

mitigating·

third person

mitigates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mitigate

What does mitigate mean?

mitigate means "lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mitigate?

mitigate has 3 syllables: mit-i-gate. The stress falls on "mit". In IPA it is /ˈmɪtəˌɡeɪt/.

What is another word for mitigate?

Close synonyms include extenuate, palliate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mitigate a common word?

mitigate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with mitigate?

28 words rhyme with mitigate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.