• bland, clement, easy, faint, genial, gentle, light, mild, moderate, smooth, soft
• to abate, to allay, to alleviate, to appease, to assuage, to attenuate, to blunt, to deaden, to dull, to ease, to extenuate, to lessen, to lighten, to mitigate, to moderate, to mollify, to relax, to release, to relieve, to salve, to slack, to slacken, to soften, to soothe, to still, to subdue, to water down
• to abate, to ease, to ease up, to lessen, to let up, to lighten, to moderate, to remit, to soften, to thaw
• bland, depressant, extenuative, extenuatory, mitigative, soothing
• clemency, geniality, mildness, softness
• alleviation, extenuation, mitigation, mollification, relief
• to put it mildly, to say the least of it