Synonyms for abatement
Most common
mitigation reduction decrease depreciation alleviation reprieve
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Mitigation — an amount abated; that which is taken away by way of reduction; deduction; decrease; a rebate or discount…
mitigation, reduction, decrease, depreciation, deduction, allowance, drawback, diminution, rebate, remission, lessening, discount, decline, lowering, subsidence, diminishment, decrement, ebb, extenuation, retrenchment
2. Alleviation
Other
declension, settling, appeasement, moderation, fading, assuagement, evanishment dated
Definitions
- n. 1
An amount abated; that which is taken away by way of reduction; deduction; decrease; a rebate or discount allowed; in particular from a tax.
- n. 2
The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; a moderation; removal or putting an end to; the suppression.
The abatement of a nuisance is the suppression thereof.
Related words
Forms
- Plural
- abatements → mitigations, reductions, decreases, depreciations…
Example sentences
- reduction A further reduction would make us go into the red.
- mitigation There's a mitigation in the translation.
- deduction The tax agent allowed the deduction.
- depreciation Is the Algerian dinar facing a bigger depreciation?
- reprieve We've been granted only a temporary reprieve.
- alleviation Agriculture has a great influence on poverty alleviation.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| abatement | falling | |
| reduction | falling | |
| mitigation | rising | |
| deduction | falling | |
| depreciation | falling | |
| reprieve | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- ebb1
- 6 letters
- fading2, hiatus3, rebate2
- 7 letters
- decline2, respite2
- 8 letters
- discount2, decrease2, settling3, lowering3, drawback2, reprieve2
- 9 letters
- reduction3, allowance3, deduction3, remission3, lessening3, decrement
- 10 letters
- suspension3, mitigation4, moderation4, subsidence3, diminution4, declension3
- 11 letters
- appeasement3, alleviation5, extenuation, assuagement, evanishment
- 12 letters
- depreciation5, retrenchment3, diminishment4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (fading2 = 2 syllables).