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    Mitigators are words like fairly, rather, quite, and pretty that are used to weaken or tone down the strength of an adjective. Some examples of mitigators provided in the document are "rather tired", "quite exciting", and "pretty good". The document also discusses using words like a bit, just a bit, slightly, and rather as mitigators when comparing things.

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    Mitigators are words like fairly, rather, quite, and pretty that are used to weaken or tone down the strength of an adjective. Some examples of mitigators provided in the document are "rather tired", "quite exciting", and "pretty good". The document also discusses using words like a bit, just a bit, slightly, and rather as mitigators when comparing things.

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    Mitigators are words like fairly, rather, quite, and pretty that are used to weaken or tone down the strength of an adjective. Some examples of mitigators provided in the document are "rather tired", "quite exciting", and "pretty good". The document also discusses using words like a bit, just a bit, slightly, and rather as mitigators when comparing things.

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    Mitigators

    Mitigators are the opposite of intensifiers. When we want to make an adjective less
    strong we use these words:

    fairly - rather - quite

    By the end of the day we were rather tired.

    The film wasn’t great but it was quite exciting.

    and in informal English: pretty

    We had a pretty good time at the party.

    We call these words mitigators.

    Warning

    quite

    When we use quite with a strong adjective it means the same as absolutely:

    The food was quite awful. = The food was absolutely awful.
    As a child he was quite brilliant. = As a child he was absolutely brilliant.

    Mitigators with comparatives:

    We use these words and phrases as mitigators:

    a bit - just a bit - a little - a little bit - just a little bit - rather - slightly

    She’s a bit younger than I am.


    It takes two hours on the train but it is a little bit longer by road
    This one is rather bigger (than the other one).

    We use slightly and rather as mitigators with comparative adjectives in front of a


    noun:

    This is a slightly more expensive model than that one.


    This is a rather bigger one than the other.

    Adjectives as intensifiers:
    We use some adjectives as intensifiers:

    absolute
    total - complete
    utter - perfect
    real

    We say:

    He’s a complete idiot.


    They were talking utter nonsense.

    … but we do not say:

    The idiot was complete.


    The nonsense they were talking was utter.

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