Level: intermediate
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.
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Level: advanced quite When we use quite with a normal adjective, it makes the adjective less strong:
But when we use quite with a strong adjective, it means the same as absolutely:
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Level: intermediate
We use these words and phrases as mitigators:
a bit just a bit a little a little bit | rather slightly just a little bit |
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.
We use slightly and rather as mitigators with comparative adjectives in front of a noun:
This is a slightly more expensive model than that.
This is a rather bigger one than that.
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نام | تعداد آزمون | میزان موفقیت | |
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yasaman mohamadipur | 1 | 87/50 % | |
Fatemh Tanhaei on | 1 | 75/00 % |
نام | تعداد آزمون | میزان موفقیت | |
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َAmeneh Darvishzadeh | 1 | 100/00 % | |
Mehrad Hashemi | 1 | 100/00 % | |
Noushmehr Norsobhi | 1 | 100/00 % | |
محمدحسین میرزایی | 1 | 100/00 % | |
مهدی حسین پور آقائی | 1 | 100/00 % | |
Farnoush Toghiany | 21 | 98/36 % | |
zahra namdari | 46 | 98/21 % | |
یاسمن محمدی پور | 4 | 98/08 % | |
Tara Mohammadi | 3 | 96/43 % | |
yasaman mohamadipur | 51 | 95/86 % | |
مهدی هنرمند | 1 | 95/24 % | |
محمدجواد ملائی اردستانی | 3 | 94/44 % | |
Arzhang Saberi | 4 | 93/33 % | |
Soheila Karimi | 124 | 92/73 % | |
aram farhmand | 10 | 92/31 % | |
یاشار اسکندری | 98 | 91/14 % | |
عباس پورمیدانی | 1 | 90/00 % | |
پریسا سلوکی شهرضایی | 72 | 89/49 % | |
ارشیا قلمکاری | 33 | 89/23 % | |
Matin Azimipour | 30 | 88/17 % |