immitigable

[ ih-mit-i-guh-buhl ]

adjective

1. unable to be mitigated; not to be mitigated.

immitigable

/ ɪˈmɪtɪɡəbəl /

adjective

1. rare.
   unable to be mitigated; relentless; unappeasable

Derived Forms

• imˌmitigaˈbility, noun
• imˈmitigably, adverb

Other Words From

• im·miti·ga·bili·ty noun
• im·miti·ga·bly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of immitigable¹

1570–80; < Late Latin immītigābilis. See im- ², mitigate ( def ), -able ( def )

Example Sentences

The moment was tense with the agony of human bitterness against the immitigable despatch of death.

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He knows and he despises with active and immitigable contempt the shallowness and fickleness of the multitude.

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The Tyro sought out his deck-chair and relapsed into immitigable boredom.

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But he was a man also of immitigable veracity in his dealing with the material of his art, in his handling of life itself.

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Her marriage had been an immitigable error which she had spent her life in trying to look straight in the face.

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