- 1徹頭徹尾的、完全的（多用於壞事，如「徹底的災難」）
Total, with nothing to it. It goes in front of a noun and makes that noun as strong as it can possibly be: 'an unmitigated disaster' means a disaster with not one single good part; 'an unmitigated success' means a success with no downside at all. The dictionary line says 'completely bad or good', and here is the honest truth behind that: in real life it goes with bad words far more often than good ones. 'Unmitigated disaster', 'unmitigated failure', 'unmitigated nonsense' are common; 'unmitigated success' does happen, but you will hear it much less. There is also a slightly old-fashioned, theatrical flavour to it — a writer or an angry speaker choosing a big word for effect. 'He is an unmitigated liar' sounds heavier and more literary than 'he is a total liar'. Note that it lives almost entirely before nouns; people do not say 'the disaster was unmitigated' in that meaning. Careful readers may notice the separate technical use of 'unmitigated' meaning 'not made less severe' (unmitigated risk, unmitigated climate change) — that one is a different, more literal use in reports and science.
組成un- (not) + mitigated (made softer, made less bad). To mitigate is to take some of the harm out of something — a lawyer talks about mitigating circumstances, meaning facts that make a crime seem less bad. So unmitigated = nothing has been taken out; the full strength is still there.
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- mitigatethe verb inside it: to make something less severe
- mitigationthe noun from the same verb, common in law and climate writing
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
unmitigatedadj
- 1
Not mitigated.
- 2
Total, complete, utter.
- Their handling of the recent diplomatic crisis was an unmitigated disaster.
- Prichard, while keeping school, had the unmitigated gall to teach Greek, although he had never studied the subject.
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