unmitigable

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ mitigable.

Adjective

unmitigable (not comparable)

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

   Synonyms: irremediable, unappeasable

   a patient suffering from unmitigable pain

   the unmitigable environmental impact of the proposed project

   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 4, column 1:

     [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, […]

   • 1780, Samuel Jackson Pratt, Emma Corbett: or, The Miseries of Civil War‎^[1], Bath: Pratt and Clinch, Volume 3, Letter 111, pp. 40-41:

     Oh for some few months of firmer health! This unmitigable disorder, which chains me to the chamber and the chair!

   • 1911, Maurice Baring, “The Death of Alexander”, in Diminutive Dramas‎^[2], London: Constable, page 36:

     […] Sleep, impiteous sleep, / Unmitigable, uncorruptible gaoler, / Come, cloak my senses with thy leaden robe,