Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not capable of being mitigated, softened, or lessened.

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  • adjective Not able to be mitigated; not mitigable.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective incapable of being mitigated

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Examples

  • Fues Fission says: straws are being grasped-anything goes in covering asses and mitigating the unmitigable.

    Think Progress » FACT CHECK: Right Wing Falsely Claims Iraq Is Safer Than Washington, D.C. 2006

  • Fues Fission says: straws are being grasped-anything goes in covering asses and mitigating the unmitigable.

    Think Progress » FACT CHECK: Right Wing Falsely Claims Iraq Is Safer Than Washington, D.C. 2006

  • Anna should love, and after our love-journey together, go about our separate lives and dine at the public tables, until the advent of her motherhood, would have seemed a terrible strain upon our unmitigable loyalty.

    In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006

  • There a new broom had been brought in, in the place of our poor friend Alaric, a broom which seemed determined to sweep all before it with an unmitigable energy.

    The Three Clerks 2004

  • O, worn and beating heart, may I dissect thy fibres, and tell how in each unmitigable misery, sadness dire, repinings, and despair, existed?

    The Last Man 2003

  • Christianity will certainly destroy slavery on account of its inherent wickedness -- its malignant temper -- its deadly effects -- its constitutional, insolent, and unmitigable opposition to the authority of God and the welfare of man.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

  • Christianity will certainly destroy slavery on account of its inherent wickedness -- its malignant temper -- its deadly effects -- its constitutional, insolent, and unmitigable opposition to the authority of God and the welfare of man.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 4 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society

  • The obelisk relieves the monotony of immeasurable plains over which a sky of serene unstained blue arches itself in infinite altitude, the image of eternal purity, and the sun rises day after day with the same unsullied brilliance, and sets with the same unmitigable glory.

    Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

  • In aid of Professor Stuart, in the rude and scarcely covert attack which he makes upon himself, we maintain that Christianity will certainly destroy slavery on account of its inherent wickedness -- its malignant temper -- its deadly effects -- its constitutional, insolent, and unmitigable opposition to the authority of

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

  • That I and Anna should love, and after our love-journey together, go about our separate lives and dine at the public tables, until the advent of her motherhood, would have seemed a terrible strain upon our unmitigable loyalty.

    In the Days of the Comet 1906

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