UNFAILING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unfailing mean? 

• UNFAILING (adjective)
  The adjective UNFAILING has 3 senses:

1. not liable to failure

2. always able to supply more

3. unceasing

  Familiarity information: UNFAILING used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNFAILING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not liable to failure

Synonyms:

foolproof; unfailing

Context example:

an unfailing test

Similar:

infallible (incapable of failure or error)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Always able to supply more

Context example:

a subject of unfailing interest

Similar:

inexhaustible (incapable of being entirely consumed or used up)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Unceasing

Synonyms:

unfailing; unflagging

Context example:

unflagging courtesy

Similar:

constant (steadfast in purpose or devotion or affection)

 Context examples 

He was a large, powerful man, prone to sudden rushes of anger over little things, and of unfailing good-humor under the stress and strain of big things.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

It was sheerly automatic, and his visioning was an unfailing accompaniment to the living present.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Maud was all this to me, an unfailing, source of strength and courage.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I cannot conceive whose stockings they can have been that Peggotty was always darning, or where such an unfailing supply of stockings in want of darning can have come from.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"No more raisins, Demi. They'll make you sick," says Mamma to the young person who offers his services in the kitchen with unfailing regularity on plum-pudding day.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It was necessary that I should return without delay to Geneva, there to watch over the lives of those I so fondly loved and to lie in wait for the murderer, that if any chance led me to the place of his concealment, or if he dared again to blast me by his presence, I might, with unfailing aim, put an end to the existence of the monstrous image which I had endued with the mockery of a soul still more monstrous.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The blessed woman was an unfailing fount of power to me.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

We can only deeply regret this unfortunate misunderstanding, and assure you of our unfailing regard.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The correspondence flourished famously, and letters flew to and fro with unfailing regularity all through the early spring.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)