What does unerring mean?
Unerring means (often figurative) consistently accurate; not missing a target..
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/ʌnˈɜːɹ.ɪŋ/ · adjective
(often figurative) consistently accurate; not missing a target..
1717: Hissing in air the unerring weapon flew. -- John Dryden's 1697–1700 translation of "The Story of Meleager and Atalanta", in Ovid's Metamorphoses (tr. Garth, Dryden, et al.), book VIII, pub. 1717
One learns, as one goes through life, to spot goofiness in the other sex with an unerring eye [...]
As the assassination of Sadat proved, the Arab irredentists, like the Zionist ultras, have always been unerring in picking off any incipient mediators.
Debutant Mateo Retegui was the beneficiary of poor work from Harry Maguire, whose failed attempt to close down the danger on the edge of the box allowed the Italians to shift the ball to the 23-year-old to drill an unerring finish past Jordan Pickford after 56 minutes.
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Unerring means (often figurative) consistently accurate; not missing a target..
Common synonyms include infallible, inerrable, inerrant.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
1717: Hissing in air the unerring weapon flew. -- John Dryden's 1697–1700 translation of "The Story of Meleager and Atalanta", in Ovid's Metamorphoses (tr. Garth, Dryden, et al.), book VIII, pub. 1717
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