unmitigable
- adjective
- /ʌnˈmɪtɪɡəbl/
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irremediable
- In the US, where 80% of our economy is retail, this will be an unmitigable disaster.
Examples
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It was an immensely moving, I thought quite wrenching piece of writing about the unmitigable absence of understanding, despite much love, between a father and son, and the heavy psychological burden of growing up under a famous father.
Fiction book (1990) -
There is no comfort I can give; the loss, unmitigable as the passage from life to death, hits me, and I clutch Rose closer.
Fiction book (1990) -
And since, in those days, I thought that having a secret of some sort was the only alternative to a life of unmitigable and intolerable boredom.
Fiction book (1990) -
After the storm caused unmitigable damage to the town, the residents struggled to rebuild their lives.
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The grief from her unmitigable loss left a profound impact on her mental health.
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His unmitigable guilt over the incident haunted him for years.
Synonyms
20
7.7
Complete, without anything that makes it less
1
9.9
Impossible to calm or satisfy
1
9.6
Not able to be fixed or made better
Cannot become smaller or weaker
Not possible to make less painful or severe
Cannot be fixed
Antonyms
How Mitigated
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unmitigable starts with un- meaning 'not' and comes from the same root as mitigate, which comes from an old Latin word meaning 'soft' or 'gentle' and is like the English word mild. So, unmitigable means 'not able to be made less serious', something that cannot be softened or reduced.