infallible

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
20
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ɪnˈfælɪbəl/
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/ɪnˈfælɪbəl/ · [ɪnˈfælɪbəl] ~ [ɪnˈfælɪbl̩] · /ɪɱˈfælɪbəl/ · [ɪɱˈfælɪbəl] ~ [ɪɱˈfælɪbl̩] · /ɪnˈfæləbəl/ · [ɪnˈfæləbəl] ~ [ɪnˈfæləbl̩] · /ɪɱˈfæləbəl/ · [ɪɱˈfæləbəl] ~ [ɪɱˈfæləbl̩]

Definition of infallible

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

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

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

adj

  1. Without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy.
    “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.”
  2. Certain to produce the intended effect; sure.
    “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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Etymology

From Medieval Latin infallibilis, from Latin in- + fallibilis. Compare French infaillible. By surface analysis, in- + fallible.

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