Adjective Mitigators
When we want to make an adjective less strong we use these words fairly | rather | quite
➧ At the end of the day, we were rather tired.
➧ The film wasn't great, but it was quite exciting.
➧ We had a pretty good time at the party.
Quite
When we use quite with a normal adjective, it makes the adjective less strong➧ The food was quite bad.
➧ The food was bad but not very bad.
➧ My nephew is quite clever.
➧ My nephew is clever but not very clever.
➧ The food was quite awful.
➧ The food was absolutely awful.
➧ As a child he was quite brilliant.
➧ As a child he was absolutely brilliant.
Mitigators with comparatives
We use these words and phrases as mitigators
a bit
just a bit
just a bit
a little
a little bit
a little bit
rather | slightly
just a little bit
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.
➧ This is a slightly more expensive model than that.
➧ This is a rather bigger one than that.
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