unmitigated
complete, total
TRANSLATION
unmitigated = vollkommen, ungemildert --- GOOGLE INDEX unmitigated: approximately 700,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Hu's first state visit to the US has been heralded as an UNMITIGATED success on the front pages of China's newspapers.
(Time magazine)
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Prof Rajan subsequently said that the IMF's obsession with surveillance of exchange rates was an UNMITIGATED disaster.
(Financial Times)
(Time magazine)
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Prof Rajan subsequently said that the IMF's obsession with surveillance of exchange rates was an UNMITIGATED disaster.
(Financial Times)
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unmitigated
adjective
- not diminished in intensity, severity, etc.
(Collins English Dictionary)
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Sophia Loren's screen test for producer Carlo Ponti was an unmitigated disaster:
"She is quite impossible to photograph. Too tall, too big-boned, too heavy all around. The face is too short, the mouth is too wide, the nose too long," came the report. Ponti would try many more times, always with the same result: Sofia Lazzaro was not very photogenic.
Finally, the 38-year-old producer sat down with the l4-year-old kid and told her to lose weight and get her nose fixed. Sofia refused. "I want to keep myself just as I am. I won't change anything," she informed Ponti, adding that "she didn't want to look like everybody else..."
Etymology:
Unmitigated comes from the verb "mitigate", meaning to make something less harmful, pleasant or bad. Adding the prefix "un" then turns the word around to mean something different, in this case "complete, total."
It is often used to describe a negative occurrence. However it can be applied to any situation as a so-called intensifier, which is a word, especially an adjective or adverb, that has little semantic content of its own but that serves to intensify the meaning of the word or phrase that it modifies.
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SYNONYMS
absolute, complete, downright, sheer, unadulterated
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"The project was an unmitigated success for the entire team."
adjective
- not diminished in intensity, severity, etc.
(Collins English Dictionary)
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Sophia Loren's screen test for producer Carlo Ponti was an unmitigated disaster:
"She is quite impossible to photograph. Too tall, too big-boned, too heavy all around. The face is too short, the mouth is too wide, the nose too long," came the report. Ponti would try many more times, always with the same result: Sofia Lazzaro was not very photogenic.
Finally, the 38-year-old producer sat down with the l4-year-old kid and told her to lose weight and get her nose fixed. Sofia refused. "I want to keep myself just as I am. I won't change anything," she informed Ponti, adding that "she didn't want to look like everybody else..."
Etymology:
Unmitigated comes from the verb "mitigate", meaning to make something less harmful, pleasant or bad. Adding the prefix "un" then turns the word around to mean something different, in this case "complete, total."
It is often used to describe a negative occurrence. However it can be applied to any situation as a so-called intensifier, which is a word, especially an adjective or adverb, that has little semantic content of its own but that serves to intensify the meaning of the word or phrase that it modifies.
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SYNONYMS
absolute, complete, downright, sheer, unadulterated
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"The project was an unmitigated success for the entire team."
