Infallible

/ɪnˈfælɪbəl/ · noun

Meaning

A person who, or an object or process that, is taken as being infallible..

Definitions by Sense

1. A person who, or an object or process that, is taken as being infallible.
2. Without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy.
3. Certain to produce the intended effect; sure.

Example Sentences

He knows about many things, but even he is not infallible.

That there may be Certainty upon an infallible Evidence in Matters of Science, I readily grant you. But since there once were Scepticks in Philosophy as well as Religion, such as doubted of every thing, I very much question, whether the whole World be agreed in this Point; unless you could assure me, that Race of Seekers is now extinct.

Try this infallible cure for hiccups.

[L]isten patiently [...] and you will easily perceive why I am reserved upon that subject. I will not lead you on, unguarded and ardent as I then was, to your destruction and infallible misery.

In precisely the same way does a quack doctor prescribe his infallible nostrum to every patient, without taking into account differences of constitution, or [...]

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• infallibles
• more infallible
• most infallible

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