Mitigative

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Lenitive; tending to alleviate.
  • noun. That which mitigates or tends to moderate or alleviate.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Tending to mitigate; alleviating.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Serving to mitigate.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear
  • Word Usage
    ""Our initial guidance on these strategies focused on the mitigative actions themselves, but we also need to consider things such as operator training and maintaining the related equipment," said Eric Leeds, director of the NRC's Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation."
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