infallible
/ɪnˈfælɪbəl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.02 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Certain to result from a specific cause; inevitable.
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 [...]"
- "Paley can only account for this fact by saying that we are constrained by the fear of punishment in a future life, such having been declared to us by revelation to be the infallible result of wrong action."
Etymology
From Medieval Latin īnfallibilis, from Latin in- + fallibilis. Compare French infaillible. By surface analysis, in- + fallible.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: īnfallibilis, in-