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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unmitigated
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an unmitigated disaster (=a complete failure)
▪ The $24,000,000 movie was an unmitigated disaster.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
disaster
▪ She had to admit that he would almost certainly not see the situation as an unmitigated disaster.
▪ On health and safety issues, however, deregulation has been an unmitigated disaster.
▪ So far, the tour had been an unmitigated disaster.
▪ What is happening in Assam is an unmitigated disaster.
▪ The raid itself was an unmitigated disaster.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Dinner, however, was an unmitigated triumph.
▪ He must have been an unmitigated nuisance to Kasturt in the household.
▪ How did the Metropolitan Grill became an unmitigated overnight sensation?
▪ The first day of the offensive broke with cynical summer loveliness on a scene shortly to be one of unmitigated horror.
▪ To an outsider this seemed a quite natural progression, but within the West Indies it was not greeted with unmitigated delight.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unmitigated

1590s, from un- (1) "not" + past participle of mitigate (v.).

Wiktionary
unmitigated

a. Not mitigated.

WordNet
unmitigated

adj. not diminished or moderated in intensity or severity; sometimes used as an intensifier; "unmitigated suffering"; "an unmitigated horror"; "an unmitigated lie" [ant: mitigated]

Usage examples of "unmitigated".

He applied his beguiling enticements with the crafty art of a true philanderer and boldly advanced his exploits with unmitigated verve.

While not everyone--yet--shared the generals opinion that the war was an unmitigated disaster, the failure of this gathering to include representatives of the fourteen Molt themes made it less colorful in a way that no amount of feathers and cloth-of-gold could repair.

Every attempt to politicize scientific knowledge has been an unmitigated disaster.

These contests were aggravated by the season: they took place during summer, when the southern Asiatic wind came laden with intolerable heat, when the streams were dried up in their shallow beds, and the vast basin of the sea appeared to glow under the unmitigated rays of the solstitial sun.

France, and leaving her own act on her unmitigated and unredressed, so that she would now thankfully get rid of her responsibility, and shake off a burden too heavy to be borne without complaint.

I think some of us wounded her deeply and unpardonably by continuing to associate her with Sibley, after he revealed what an unmitigated rascal he was.

I took care not to play with them, for the false marquis was an unmitigated cheat and often tricked with less skill than impudence.

She knew that Magda had been the first to infiltrate the Guild of Renunciates, had even managed to take the Oath, and had quixotically insisted on keeping it, even to serving the full housebound time, which, before the creation of the Bridge Society, had been required in unmitigated form even of Terrans.

He has a number of enemies on the board, unmitigated troublemakers who try to tie his hands whenever they can.

The officers were Frenchmen loyal to the ancien regime, while its men were deserters from the French Army and all unmitigated scoundrels.

To make matters worse, Charlotte had had the unmitigated nerve to inform him that the explanation for his behavior could be found in Byron's overheated, melodramatic poetry.

A tale of Ravers and Elohim and Forestals and sleep, the fatal sleep of long time and unmitigated loss.