Usually means: Circumstances that lessen the severity.
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  1. extenuating: Merriam-Webster
  2. extenuating: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. extenuating: Collins English Dictionary
  4. extenuating: Vocabulary.com
  5. Extenuating, extenuating: Wordnik
  6. extenuating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. extenuating: Wiktionary
  8. Extenuating, extenuating: Dictionary.com
  9. extenuating: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Extenuating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. extenuating: Rhymezone
  12. Extenuating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. extenuating: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. extenuating: FreeDictionary.org
  15. extenuating: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. extenuating: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. extenuating: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. extenuating: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. extenuating: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (extenuating)

▸ adjective:  That lessens the seriousness of something by providing an excuse.

Similar:
exculpatory, minorative, diminuent, diminished, levigate, diminutive, deescalatory, de-escalatory, ablatitious, derogatory, more...

Opposite:
aggravating, intensifying, worsening

Phrases:
extenuating circumstances, extenuating circumstance, extenuating the difference, opposite of extenuating, more...

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Similar:
exculpatory, minorative, diminuent, diminished, levigate, diminutive, deescalatory, de-escalatory, ablatitious, derogatory, more...

Opposite:
aggravating, intensifying, worsening

Phrases:
extenuating circumstances, extenuating circumstance, extenuating the difference, opposite of extenuating, more...



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