Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
incapable of failure or error;
- Example: "an infallible antidote"- Example: "an infallible memory"- Example: "the Catholic Church considers the Pope infallible"- Example: "no doctor is infallible"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Infallible \In*fal"li*ble\, a. [Pref. in- not + fallible: cf. F.
infallible.]
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1. Not fallible; not capable of erring; entirely exempt from
liability to mistake; unerring; inerrable. --Dryden.
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2. Not liable to fail, deceive, or disappoint; indubitable;
sure; certain; as, infallible evidence; infallible
success; an infallible remedy.
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To whom also he showed himself alive, after his
passion, by many infallible proofs. --Acts i. 3.
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3. (R. C. Ch.) Incapable of error in defining doctrines
touching faith or morals. See Papal infallibility, under
Infallibility.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
infallible
adj 1: incapable of failure or error; "an infallible antidote";
"an infallible memory"; "the Catholic Church considers
the Pope infallible"; "no doctor is infallible" [ant:
fallible]