Calm vs Mitigate - What's the difference?
calm | mitigate |
(of a person) Peaceful, quiet, especially free from anger and anxiety.
(of a place or situation) Free of noise and disturbance.
(of water) with little waves on the surface.
Without wind or storm.
(in a person) The state of being calm; peacefulness; absence of worry, anger, fear or other strong negative emotion.
(in a place or situation) The state of being calm; absence of noise and disturbance.
A period of time without wind.
* Bible, Mark iv. 39
To make calm.
* Dryden
To become calm.
To reduce, lessen, or decrease.
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To downplay.
In lang=en terms the difference between calm and mitigate
is that calm is to become calm while mitigate is to downplay.As verbs the difference between calm and mitigate
is that calm is to make calm while mitigate is to reduce, lessen, or decrease.As an adjective calm
is (of a person) peaceful, quiet, especially free from anger and anxiety.As a noun calm
is (in a person) the state of being calm; peacefulness; absence of worry, anger, fear or other strong negative emotion.calm
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Adjective
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* (free from anger and anxiety) stressed, nervous, anxious * (free of noise and disturbance) disturbed * (without wind or storm) windy, stormyDerived terms
* calm as a millpond * ice-calmNoun
(en noun)- The wind ceased, and there was a great calm .
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* ice-calmVerb
(en verb)- to calm a crying baby
- to calm the passions
- to calm the tempest raised by Aeolus
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* calm down, cool off, ease, pacify, quieten, soothe, subdueAnagrams
* ----mitigate
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(mitigat)- Measures are pursuing to prevent or mitigate the usual consequences of such outrages, and with the hope of their succeeding at least to avert general hostility.
- But in yielding to it the retaliation has been mitigated as much as possible, both in its extent and in its character...
- Then they tell us that vaccination will mitigate the disease that it will make it milder.
- Then I discovered the brilliance of the landscape around was mitigated by blue spectacles.
- The plague had not been kind to him, yet had left him this small furry thing to mitigate his sorrow; and when one is very young, one can find great relief in the lively antics of a black kitten.