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• past tense form of mitigate.
• past participle of mitigate.

mitigated

American  

[mit-i-gey-tid] / ˈmɪt ɪˌgeɪ tɪd /

adjective

1. lessened in force, severity, or intensity; moderated.

   He received a mitigated sentence, with parole offered sooner than is customary.

2. (of a person, state of mind, etc.) made milder, gentler, less hostile, etc.; mollified or appeased.

   Several members expressed opinions lauding the proposal, but what is still more encouraging is the mitigated tone of its opponents.

3. Environmental Science. (of a habitat) restored or re-created in order to make up for losses due to development or agriculture.

   Here the path begins to weave among five ponds that are part of a mitigated wetland installed at the nature museum in 1998.

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verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of mitigate.

Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• mitigatedly
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of mitigated

First recorded in 1540–50; mitigate ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. ) for the adjective senses; mitigate ( def. ) + -ed ¹ ( def. ) for the verb sense

Explanation

Use the adjective mitigated to describe something that's been made less serious. If your friend gets a serious case of food poisoning, news of her mitigated symptoms will make you feel relieved. When something has lessened in intensity or seriousness, you can call it mitigated. If a judge decides on a mitigated sentence for your brother the car thief, it means he's not in quite as much trouble as he might have been, and you could say that hosting movie night at your house has mitigated, or reduced, the money you spend at the theater. The Latin root word, mitigatus, means make mild or gentle.

Example Sentences

The city had adopted what’s known as a mitigated negative declaration, which is shorter and less detailed than a full environmental impact report.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026

Navy’s presence at the Strait of Hormuz has mitigated fears regarding the disruption of 20% of global supply, reassuring the market that non-Iranian supply remains fluid, says analyst Linh Tran.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

Bezuidenhout said some of that impact was mitigated by the fact that 20-50% of Aurigny's fuel volumes were "hedged out at fixed pricing".

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

“We still view that sort of chain of events as something that could be mitigated by some positive developments out there,” Schlossberg said.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 26, 2026

They don’t see any hierarchical gap between themselves and the pilots in the air, and to them, mitigated speech from a pilot doesn’t mean the speaker is being appropriately deferential to a superior.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

Related Words

• diminished