mitigation

Other forms of mitigation

plural

mitigations·

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 mitigation

What does mitigation mean?

mitigation means "to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mitigation?

mitigation has 4 syllables: mit-i-ga-tion. The stress falls on "ga". In IPA it is /ˌmɪtɪˈɡeɪʃən/.

What is another word for mitigation?

Close synonyms include extenuation, palliation, extenuation, moderation. 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 mitigation a common word?

mitigation 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 mitigation?

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