Antonyms for infallible

Grammar : Adj

Spell : in-fal-uh-buh l

Phonetic Transcription : ɪnˈfæl ə bəl

Definition of infallible

Origin : early 15c., from Medieval Latin infallibilis, from in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + Late Latin fallibilis (see fallible). In reference to Popes, attested from 1870. Related: Infallibly.

adj unerring, dependable

Example sentences :

Mrs. Turnbull's recipe, infallible for all aches, bruises, and strains.
Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 5 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth

She is not so infallible a markswoman, but that she might shoot at a crow and kill a pigeon.
Extract from : « Maid Marian » by Thomas Love Peacock

Even the simplest of them—to do good to other people—is an instant and infallible specific.
Extract from : « Pax Vobiscum » by Henry Drummond

How, you clever and infallible members of this present generation, do you judge her?
Extract from : « Priestess of the Flame » by Sewell Peaslee Wright

This freshness, however, is not to be taken for an infallible sign of 7.
Extract from : « Modern Painters Volume II (of V) » by John Ruskin

Why, yes, he said: how can any reasonable being ever identify that which is infallible with that which errs?
Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato

The infallible index of true progress is found in the tone the man takes.
Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson

They think that vain old cataract of verbiage to be infallible.
Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)

I knew that such a plan was infallible, because it saved her dignity.
Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

Infallible; if everything were not right I could not bear the smart.
Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

Synonyms for infallible

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