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Definition
make less harmful or unpleasant
- He was intent on an audacious, immitigable, and supernatural revenge.Chapters 40-42 — Midnight, Forecastle; Moby Dick; The Whiteness of the Whale (57% in)
immitigable = impossible to make less harmful or extreme
(Editor's note: The prefix "im-" in immitigable means not and reverses the meaning of mitigable. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "M" or "P" as seen in words like immoral, immature, and impossible.)
(Editor's note: The prefix "im-" in immitigable means not and reverses the meaning of mitigable. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "M" or "P" as seen in words like immoral, immature, and impossible.)
- He never used to swear, though, at his men, they said; but somehow he got an inordinate quantity of cruel, unmitigated hard work out of them.Chapters 16-18 — The Ship; The Ramadan; His Mark (33% in)
There are no more uses of "mitigate" in Moby Dick.
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