unmitigated
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7.7
- adjective
- /ʌnˈmɪtɪˌɡeɪtɪd/
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- The 1965 Immigration Reform Act has been an unmitigated policy failure for the United States.
- an unmitigated disaster
- unmitigated evil
- an unmitigated failure
Well, what we have now is an unmitigated man made disaster.
- Well, what we have now is an unmitigated man made disaster.
- I mean, so yeah, COVID was an unmitigated disaster for everyone.
- The trifling was over now it was unmitigated slaughter.
- So anyway, the movie was just a complete, unmitigated disaster.
- Because he flaunts the law, he wants unmitigated power.
- And these moments for Kamala Harris were unmitigated disasters like what happened on The View.
- Well, I just wanted to highlight for everyone the corruption, the unmitigated corruption going on in the Trump transition team.
- So you should only pull out the the geoengineering fix if it's otherwise unmitigated disaster.
- And the fact that, you know, that that has led to this, you know, as you put it, unmitigated arson that is going to hurt them.
- We talked about progress as an unmitigated plus, and we don't talk about the cost we we create as high cost for everybody else.
- Do you view cancer as an unmitigated catastrophe, or do you view cancer as manageable or perhaps even even an opportunity?
Examples
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So anyway, the movie was just a complete, unmitigated disaster.
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Every direct confrontation has ended in absolute, unmitigated disaster.
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Well, what we have now is an unmitigated man made disaster.
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But it was an unmitigated disaster.
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What just happened in Rome was an unmitigated disaster.
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This is an unmitigated outrage.
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The conventional wisdom now is that the war in Iraq is also an unmitigated disaster.
Academic text (2007) -
Socialism turned out to be an unmitigated disaster for the Arabs.
Academic text (2012) -
In point of fact, Wesley's missionary attempt in Georgia proved to be an unmitigated failure.
Academic text (2004) -
The event was an unmitigated disaster that left everyone shocked and disappointed.
Synonyms
4
6.0
Still the same in amount, strength, or quality as before
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8.6
Not reduced in strength or power
You cannot make it less serious or less strong
Cannot become smaller or weaker
It is still painful or serious with no relief
Antonyms
How Mitigated
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unmitigated breaks into the prefix un- meaning 'not' and the verb mitigate, from a Latin root mitis meaning 'soft' or 'gentle'. So unmitigated literally means 'not softened' and is used to say something is complete or absolute, often in a bad way like an 'unmitigated disaster'.