mitigable
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Capable of being made less severe, painful, or harsh: Describes something (typically a negative condition, effect, or punishment) that can be alleviated, moderated, or reduced in intensity.
- Able to be mitigated: Indicates the potential for a situation to be improved or softened through intervention.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- The judge considered the sentence mitigable due to the defendant's cooperation.
- While the side effects are unpleasant, they are mitigable with proper medication.
- The environmental damage from the project is significant but mitigable through restoration efforts.
Advanced Usage
- Legal/Formal Context: Often used in legal, medical, or technical writing to discuss the potential for reduction in severity.
- The contract includes mitigable penalties for minor breaches.
- In Risk Assessment: Used to describe risks or negative outcomes that can be lessened.
- The report classified the financial risks as serious but mitigable.
Variants and Related Words
- Mitigate (verb): To make less severe, serious, or painful.
- The new policy aims to mitigate the impact of inflation.
- Mitigation (noun): The action of reducing the severity, seriousness, or painfulness of something.
- Flood mitigation measures were implemented.
- Mitigating (adjective): Serving to make less severe (often used before "circumstances" or "factors").
- The court heard evidence of mitigating circumstances.
Synonyms
- Alleviable: Capable of being made more bearable.
- Reducible: Capable of being lessened or diminished.
- Moderatable: Capable of being made less extreme or intense.
Antonyms
- Irremediable: Impossible to cure, fix, or correct.
- Inexpiable: (Of an offense) unable to be atoned for or made right.
- Unmitigable: Not capable of being mitigated or alleviated.
Adjective
- capable of being alleviated