mitigating

adj.

1.

serving to reduce blame; - of situations; as, mitigating factors; mitigating circumstances. Opposite of aggravating.

abating, allaying, alleviating, alleviative, altering, analgesic, anesthetic, anodyne, assuaging, assuasive, balmy, balsamic, benumbing, blunting, bounding, cathartic, chastening, cleansing, cushioning, dampening, damping, deadening, demulcent, diminishing, dulling, easing, emollient, excusatory, extenuating, extenuatory, justifying, lenitive, lessening, limitative, limiting, mitigative, mitigatory, modificatory, modifying, modulatory, numbing, pain-killing, palliative, purgative, qualificative, qualificatory, qualifying, reducing, relaxing, relieving, remedial, restricting, restrictive, softening, soothing, subduing, tempering, vindicating

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