extenuatory

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Tending to extenuate or palliate.
    — Johnson has spread over Savage's character the varnish, or rather the veil, of stately diction and extenuatory phrases, but cannot prevent the observant reader from seeing that Savage was an ungrateful and insolent profligate.

词形变化

more extenuatory comparative most extenuatory superlative

词源

Compare Latin extenuātōrius (“attenuating”).
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