Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unmitigable

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-mit-i-ga-ble
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Not mitigable; not able to be mitigated or made less severe.

Example Sentences

"a patient suffering from unmitigable pain"
"the unmitigable environmental impact of the proposed project"
"[T]hou [Ariel] vvaſt a Spirit too delicate / To act her [the witch Sycorax's] earthy, and abhord commands, / Refuſing her grand heſts, ſhe did confine thee / By helpe of her more potent Miniſters, / And in her moſt vnmittigable rage, / Into a cloven Pyne, […]"
"Oh for some few months of firmer health! This unmitigable disorder, which chains me to the chamber and the chair!"
"[…] Sleep, impiteous sleep, / Unmitigable, uncorruptible gaoler, / Come, cloak my senses with thy leaden robe,"

Etymology

From un- + mitigable.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: un-
Suffix: mitigable

Derived Forms

unmitigably

Synonyms

irremediable unappeasable

Questions

What does unmitigable mean?: Not mitigable; not able to be mitigated or made less severe.
Where does unmitigable come from?: From un- + mitigable.

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