Both Uses of
mitigate
in
The Maelstrom by Neff
- Snatching it out of the air, the corpse stared at the object upon its palm with a look of unmitigated loathing.†
Chpt 5
- He had never felt such a rush of pure, unmitigated joy.
Chpt 18 *unmitigated = complete (not diminished)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unmitigated means not and reverses the meaning of mitigated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
Definition:
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(mitigate) make less harmful or unpleasant