Rigorous vs Unmitigated - What's the difference?
rigorous | unmitigated | Related terms |
Manifesting, exercising, or favoring rigour; allowing no abatement or mitigation; scrupulously accurate; exact; strict; severe; relentless; as, a rigorous officer of justice; a rigorous execution of law; a rigorous definition or demonstration.
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, title= Severe; intense; inclement; as, a rigorous winter.
Violent.
Not mitigated.
* 1919 ,
*:"You don't care if people think you an utter blackguard? You don't care if she and your children have to beg their bread?"
*:"Not a damn."
*:I was silent for a moment in order to give greater force to my next remark. I spoke as deliberately as I could.
*:"You are a most unmitigated cad."
*:"Now that you've got that off your chest, let's go and have dinner."
Rigorous is a related term of unmitigated.
As adjectives the difference between rigorous and unmitigated
is that rigorous is manifesting, exercising, or favoring rigour; allowing no abatement or mitigation; scrupulously accurate; exact; strict; severe; relentless; as, a rigorous officer of justice; a rigorous execution of law; a rigorous definition or demonstration while unmitigated is not mitigated.rigorous
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Alternative forms
* rigourousAdjective
(en adjective)Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
