immitigable

American  

[ih-mit-i-guh-buhl] / ɪˈmɪt ɪ gə bəl /

adjective

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

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immitigable British  

/ ɪˈmɪtɪɡəbəl /

adjective

1. rare unable to be mitigated; relentless; unappeasable

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Other Word Forms

• immitigability noun
• immitigably adverb

Etymology

Origin of immitigable

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

Example Sentences

There is a small but immitigable fallacy in the theory of close reading, though, and it applies to political journalism as well as to the reading of poetry.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 24, 2015

Soon he might be able to return to Air Conditioned Nightmare, his book-in-progress on the immitigable crassness of the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

He inspects the bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, some fiendish and immitigable hope flaring within him: What if-—?

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Doth some lone Dryad haunt the breezeless air, Fronting yon bright immitigable blue, And wildly breathing all her wild soul through That strange unearthly music of despair?

From Songs from the Southland by Price, Sarah Frances

At length the body is found, and poor Zenobia is brought to the shore with her knees still bent in the attitude of prayer, and her hands clenched in immitigable defiance.

From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir