infallible

Speech parts

1. infallible - Noun

2. infallible - Adjective

Meaning

Not fallible; not capable of erring; entirely exempt from liability to mistake; unerring; inerrable.

Not liable to fail, deceive, or disappoint; indubitable; sure; certain; as, infallible evidence; infallible success; an infallible remedy.

Incapable of error in defining doctrines touching faith or morals. See Papal infallibility, under Infallibility.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

perfect faultless inerrant right certain true necessary ten effective positive correct absolute accurate secure firm
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Antonyms

fallible imperfect faulty defective error-prone rocky
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Related terms

infallibility infallibly

Phrases with the word

infallible test less infallible

Examples

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty. Edward Gibbon

Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well. P. G. Wodehouse

The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one. Robert Smith Surtees

Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity. Saul Bellow

No man is infallible. Traditional Proverb

No man is infallible. English Proverb

Close letter words and terms

infallibilism infallibilist infallibility infallible test infallibleness infallibly