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unmitigable

unmitigable adjective: not mitigable; not able to be mitigated or made less severe.

Adjective

unmitigable (not comparable)

  1. Not mitigable; not able to be mitigated or made less severe.
    • a patient suffering from unmitigable pain
    • the unmitigable environmental impact of the proposed project

Examples of unmitigable in a sentence

  • This unmitigable disorder, which chains me to the chamber and the chair!1780, Samuel Jackson Pratt, Emma Corbett: or, The Miseries of Civil War, Bath: Pratt and Clinch, Volume 3, Letter 111, pp. 40-41:
  • […] Sleep, impiteous sleep, / Unmitigable, uncorruptible gaoler, / Come, cloak my senses with thy leaden robe,1911, Maurice Baring, “The Death of Alexander”, in Diminutive Dramas, London: Constable, page 36:

Synonyms of unmitigable

Origin of unmitigable

From un- + mitigable.

Words formed from unmitigable

Questions about unmitigable

What does unmitigable mean?
Unmitigable means not mitigable; not able to be mitigated or made less severe.
How do you use unmitigable in a sentence?
This unmitigable disorder, which chains me to the chamber and the chair!
What part of speech is unmitigable?
Unmitigable is an adjective.

Words near unmitigable in the dictionary

  1. unmisunderstandable
  2. unmiter
  3. unmitered
  4. unmitering
  5. unmiters
  6. unmitigable
  7. unmitigably
  8. unmitigated
  9. unmitigatedly
  10. unmitigatedness
  11. unmitigative

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