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unmitigated

[uhn-mit-i-gey-tid]

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adjective

not mitigated; not softened or lessened: unmitigated suffering.

unqualified or absolute: an unmitigated bore.

Origin:
1590–1600; un-¹ + mitigated

Related forms

un·mit·i·gat·ed·ly, adverb

Synonyms
1. unrelieved, unabated, unbroken, persistent.

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Example Sentences

As fans, they watched this film with unmitigated excitement.

The question you should be asking is if you are an unmitigated a**hole.

It used to be that outside investors reacted with unmitigated joy when a company started to buy back its shares.

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As fans, they watched this film with unmitigated excitement.

The question you should be asking is if you are an unmitigated a**hole.

It used to be that outside investors reacted with unmitigated joy when a company started to buy back its shares.

Dust storms raced, unmitigated by moisture, across the northern states.

Only matched by the unmitigated zeal of the uninformed and the greedy.

It's a place to complain about all the things that make commuting unmitigated drudgery.

My immediate reaction was one of pure, unmitigated fear.

But the election was hardly an unmitigated triumph for the government.

But it will take time before the project can be considered an unmitigated success.

He begrudges midway game operators who are driven by unmitigated greed to create remote odds of success.

The upshot was neither an unmitigated success nor an unmitigated failure.

Consider the unmitigated ecological disaster that is the automobile.

Here's one thing for which it deserves unmitigated praise: that name.

The piece ushered in an era of nearly unmitigated oil price appreciation.

Genetically modified crops are proving to be an unmitigated environmental miracle.

To anyone who thinks of child labour as an unmitigated evil, this price looks worth paying.

Allowing unmitigated booms is good for bankers, not banks.

All the same, the initiative process is a mixed bag, not an unmitigated disaster.

If they never work in groups and then suddenly have peer review thrown at them, it's an unmitigated disaster.

And for parents and many of the students, it is a cause for unmitigated celebration.

It boasts calculated offensiveness, unsympathetic protagonists and unapologetic, unmitigated cynicism.

The rise in world food prices should not be regarded as an unmitigated disaster.

Yves speaking fast but in spurts, broken up by unexpected peals of sheer unmitigated delight.

And this unmitigated purpose has been stupendously achieved.

Consolidation in the industry has caused unmitigated public harm and it is high time it ended.

There is not a discordant note in this unmitigated flow of enthusiastic self-appreciation.

Though these are promising developments that show the bailout has not been an unmitigated short-term.

It is no exaggeration to say that in all respects these vessels were absolute and unmitigated failures.

It also perpetuates the corrosive debate in which taxes are portrayed as basically evil and tax cuts as unmitigated good.

My effort to pack a standard pepper mill with the elongated nubs was an unmitigated failure.

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World English Dictionary

unmitigated (ʌnˈmɪtɪˌɡeɪtɪd)

—*adj*
1.	not diminished in intensity, severity, etc
2.	(prenominal) (intensifier): an unmitigated disaster

un'mitigatedly

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

unmitigated

1599, from un- (1) "not" + pp. of mitigate.

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"Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty—necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels."

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