UNMITIGATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unmitigated mean? 

• UNMITIGATED (adjective)
  The adjective UNMITIGATED has 1 sense:

1. not diminished or moderated in intensity or severity; sometimes used as an intensifier

  Familiarity information: UNMITIGATED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNMITIGATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not diminished or moderated in intensity or severity; sometimes used as an intensifier

Context example:

an unmitigated lie

Similar:

arrant; complete; consummate; double-dyed; everlasting; gross; perfect; pure; sodding; staring; stark; thorough; thoroughgoing; unadulterated; utter (without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers)

bally; blinking; bloody; blooming; crashing; flaming; fucking (informal intensifiers)

bodacious (incorrigible)

undiminished; unrelieved (not lessened or diminished)

Antonym:

mitigated (made less severe or intense)

 Context examples 

The door, however, proved not to be locked, and they were all agreed in turning joyfully through it, and leaving the unmitigated glare of day behind.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

And I still believe that Herbert Spencer is a great and noble man and that Judge Blount is an unmitigated ass.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

My dear, said Mr. Micawber, with some heat, it may be better for me to state distinctly, at once, that if I were to develop my views to that assembled group, they would possibly be found of an offensive nature: my impression being that your family are, in the aggregate, impertinent Snobs; and, in detail, unmitigated Ruffians.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Here are the Daily Gazette extracts of the last fortnight. ‘Lady with a black boa at Prince’s Skating Club’—that we may pass. ‘Surely Jimmy will not break his mother’s heart’—that appears to be irrelevant. ‘If the lady who fainted on Brixton bus’—she does not interest me. ‘Every day my heart longs—’ Bleat, Watson—unmitigated bleat!

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)