unmitigatedadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈmɪtᵻɡeɪtᵻd/, U.S. /ˌənˈmɪdəˌɡeɪdᵻd/ 1. Not reduced in intensity or severity; not softened (in feeling, brightness, harshness, etc.); unrelieved.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > severity > [adjective] > not reduced in severity
relentless1592
unmitigated1600
unrelenting1609
unabateda1625
unrebated1681
unalleviated1750
unlightened1784
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iv. i. 308 With publike accusation,..vnmittigated rancour. View more context for this quotation
1762 E. Carter Poems Several Occasions 6 While, glowing with unmitigated Day, The nearer Planets roll their rapid Way.
1782 F. Burney Cecilia IV. vii. v. 65 To lose you, from whatever cause, ensures me wretchedness unmitigated.
1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park I. ix. 189 The unmitigated glare of day. View more context for this quotation
1833 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Loire 26 [It] is not an unmitigated evil.
1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets v. 129 Supreme art lends solemnity and grandeur to the expression of unmitigated passion.
1907 N. Duncan Cruise of Shining Light iii. 34 In respect to obedience his severity was unmitigated, as with all seafaring men.
1958 H. J. Eysenck Sense & Nonsense in Psychol. iii. 119 The unmitigated boredom produced by having to read through countless reports, all as similar as two peas.
2005 F. Summers Self Creation x. 247 Unmitigated distress and anger become overwhelmingly punishing, and the child is forced to shut down her emotions in order to relieve her pain.
2. Unqualified, absolute; complete, utter, out-and-out.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > utter or absolute
shirea1225
purec1300
properc1380
plainc1395
cleana1400
fine?a1400
entirec1400
veryc1400
starka1425
utterc1430
utterlyc1440
merec1443
absolute1531
outright1532
cleara1535
bloodyc1540
unproachable1544
flat1553
downright1577
sheer1583
right-down?1586
single1590
peremptory1601
perfecta1616
downa1625
implicit1625
every way1628
blank1637
out-and-outa1642
errant1644
inaccessional1651
thorough-paced1651
even down1654
dead1660
double-dyed1667
through stitch1681
through-stitched1682
total1702
thoroughgoing1719
thorough-sped1730
regular1740
plumb1748
hollow1751
unextenuated1765
unmitigated1783
stick, stock, stone dead1796
positive1802
rank1809
heart-whole1823
skire1825
solid1830
fair1835
teetotal1840
bodacious1845
raw1856
literal1857
resounding1873
roaring1884
all out1893
fucking1893
pink1896
twenty-four carat1900
grand slam1915
stone1928
diabolical1933
fricking1937
righteous1940
fecking1952
raving1954
1783 E. Burke Let. from Distinguished Eng. Commoner 6 It is neither more nor less than a renewed act of universal, unmitigated, indispensable, exceptionless disqualification.
1840 J. S. Mill Diss. & Disc. (1859) I. 428 Still more unmitigated savages, the wild Indians.
1849 C. Brontë Shirley I. vii. 154 Caroline ‘was glad to see them’ (an unmitigated fib).
1860 All Year Round 8 Sept. 511 In very plain speech, I look on him as an unmitigated humbug.
1911 C. E. W. Bean ‘Dreadnought’ of Darling xxxii. 283 They were horrible—the blackest, unmitigated rascals, fearing neither God nor the devil.
1938 J.-A. Goris Strangers should not Whisper vii. 241 The work the Belgians have done deserves unmitigated and high praise.
1954 G. Durrell Bafut Beagles vii. 140 I resisted the temptation of telling the Beagle that he was an unmitigated idiot.
1965 A. J. P. Taylor Eng. Hist. 1914–45 xiii. 441 War still seemed to him an unmitigated disaster.
2012 Private Eye 15 June 25/2 Gordon Brown's tenure at Leveson was an unmitigated success.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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