Deleterious vs Mitigate - What's the difference?
deleterious | mitigate |
harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way (as for example deleterious'' effects, ''deleterious to health).
* 1850 , :
To reduce, lessen, or decrease.
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* 1901 — , ch 7
* 1920 —
To downplay.
As an adjective deleterious
is harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way (as for example deleterious'' effects, ''deleterious to health).As a verb mitigate is
to reduce, lessen, or decrease.deleterious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Or might it suffice him, that every wholesome growth should be converted into something deleterious and malignant at his touch?
Synonyms
* (harmful) destructive, harmful, hurtful, injurious, noxious, pernicious; see alsoDerived terms
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*mitigate
English
Verb
(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.
