Less awful

Synonyms for "less awful" (22 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (5)

Noun(5 words)
cautious interpretationconservative languagehedged claimimproved outcomeless harmful outcome

Strong matches (6)

Noun(6 words)
less seriousless severelowered impactmarginally bettermildermitigated

Related words (11)

Noun(11 words)
mitigated riskmitigated wordingmoderately bettermore tolerablenot as badreduced damage categoryreduced severityslightly betterslightly less severesoftened phrasingsomewhat better

Related word relations

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5 relation types

More general

10 entries
adverbdegree adverbdegree modifierevaluative adjectivehedginglinguistic hedgeoutcome categoryquality metricrisk categoryrisk metric

More specific

17 entries
cautious claimless dreadfulless grimless terriblelow severity statemarginally bettermildly negative evaluationminor incidentnegligible damagepartial mitigationqualifying statementreduced loss eventslightly less severeslightly negative appraisalsoftened assessmentsomewhat less dangerous

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Collocations

12 entries
less awful conditionless awful impactless awful outcomeless awful performanceless awful resultless awful riskless awful scenarioless awful stateless awful thansignificantly less awfulslightly less awfulsomewhat less awful

Inflections

1 entries
least awful

Derivations

2 entries