Usually means: Reducing or diminishing severity or intensity.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. extenuatory: Merriam-Webster
  2. extenuatory: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. extenuatory: Collins English Dictionary
  4. extenuatory: Wordnik
  5. extenuatory: Wiktionary
  6. extenuatory: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. extenuatory: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Extenuatory, extenuatory: Dictionary.com
  9. Extenuatory: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. extenuatory: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Extenuatory: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. extenuatory: FreeDictionary.org
  13. Extenuatory: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

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

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▸ adjective:  Tending to extenuate or palliate.

Similar:
extenuative, aggravative, exacerbatory, enhancive, exacerbative, extensive, exacerbating, extorsive, exasperated, overtedious, more...

Opposite:
aggravating, exacerbating, worsening

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Similar:
extenuative, aggravative, exacerbatory, enhancive, exacerbative, extensive, exacerbating, extorsive, exasperated, overtedious, more...

Opposite:
aggravating, exacerbating, worsening



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