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

O grief immitigable that it was my deed, my dreadful deed, that raised him to the throne—the throne that was Alfred's and Edmund's and Athelstan's!

From Dead Man's Plack and an Old Thorn by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)

Huge headlands, stubborn cliffs, precipitous hills rise suddenly from the sea, bold, harsh, immitigable, yet softened by their aspect of gray endurance.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 by Various