unmitigatedly
- adverb
- /ʌnˈmɪtɪɡeɪtɪdli/
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absolutamente
- However, my own view (which may well be wrong) is that a vote for Romney is probably not in the wider world's best interests (though I doubt either result would be unmitigatedly good for all of us).
Examples
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We cross our fingers and pray that you won't let in another George 'Dubya' Bush, a presidency seen by most of the rest of us as unmitigatedly disastrous; many of us are still feeling its toxic fallout.
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You train hard, learn, maintain the unmitigated daily discipline in all things.
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The storm caused unmitigatedly severe damage to the town's infrastructure.
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Her unmitigatedly enthusiastic response to the news surprised everyone.
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He faced unmitigatedly harsh criticism for his controversial remarks.
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
unmitigatedly = unmitigated (transparent) = un + mitigate + ed + ly
Formed by adding the adverbial suffix '-ly' to the adjective 'unmitigated'; the manner sense ('in a complete/absolute way') follows expected derivational rules.
Etymology
The word unmitigatedly is built from un- meaning 'not', mitigate meaning 'make milder', as in the common word mild, and -ly which makes it describe how something happens. So unmitigatedly means 'not made milder', that is 'completely' or 'without any reduction', which is why we say a success was unmitigatedly great or a film unmitigatedly boring.