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Unmitigated vs Unremitting - What's the difference?

unmitigated | unremitting |

As adjectives the difference between unmitigated and unremitting

is that unmitigated is not mitigated while unremitting is incessant; never slackening.

unmitigated

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • 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."

    • unremitting

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • incessant; never slackening
  • * 1961 : J. A. Philip. Mimesis in the ''Sophistês'' of Plato . In: Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92. p. 467.
    • We can achieve this god?likeness only by unremitting and strenuous effort of the intellect.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1818 , author=Mary Shelley , title=Frankenstein , chapter=4 citation , passage=These thoughts supported my spirits, while I pursued my undertaking with unremitting ardour.}}

    Derived terms

    * unremittingly

    References