INFALLIBLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does infallible mean? 

• INFALLIBLE (adjective)
  The adjective INFALLIBLE has 1 sense:

1. incapable of failure or error

  Familiarity information: INFALLIBLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INFALLIBLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Incapable of failure or error

Context example:

no doctor is infallible

Similar:

foolproof; unfailing (not liable to failure)

inerrable; inerrant; unerring (not liable to error)

Antonym:

fallible (likely to fail or make errors)

Derivation:

infallibility (the quality of never making an error)

 Context examples 

I am the servant of an infallible Master.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I warmed the ale and made the toast on the usual infallible principles.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

My dear Tregellis, you are infallible upon a cravat, but you must allow me the right of my own judgment upon vests.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I will not lead you on, unguarded and ardent as I then was, to your destruction and infallible misery.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It seems indeed to be a work that requires some exactness, but the professor assured us, “that if it were dexterously performed, the cure would be infallible.”

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He tried to tell it to Joe, but Joe had visions of his own, infallible schemes whereby he would escape the slavery of laundry-work and become himself the owner of a great steam laundry.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Now a bag of remarkable clothespins, next, a wonderful nutmeg grater which fell to pieces at the first trial, a knife cleaner that spoiled all the knives, or a sweeper that picked the nap neatly off the carpet and left the dirt, labor-saving soap that took the skin off one's hands, infallible cements which stuck firmly to nothing but the fingers of the deluded buyer, and every kind of tinware, from a toy savings bank for odd pennies, to a wonderful boiler which would wash articles in its own steam with every prospect of exploding in the process.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He told me that sometimes, though very rarely, a child happened to be born in a family, with a red circular spot in the forehead, directly over the left eyebrow, which was an infallible mark that it should never die.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)