| 单词 | infallible |
| 释义 | infallible (once / 784 pages) adj "Fallible" means capable of making mistakes — or, easier to remember — capable of failing. Infallible means exactly the opposite — incapable of failing. This word is often used to describe human capacity for error — no one is infallible. And yet, we are able to be infallible in certain ways: children are infallibly curious, teenagers infallibly hungry. Interestingly, infallible derives from the Latin in- "not" + fallere "deceive." When did making a mistake and deception become the same thing? WORD FAMILYinfallible: infallibility, infallibly+/fallibility: fallibilities/fallible: fallibility, infallible/infallibility: infallibilities USAGE EXAMPLES“Queenie was born with a great talent, though she’s not infallible.” Time(Dec 21, 2016) The market is not a church or an infallible system. Seattle Times(Dec 21, 2016) This is not to say that the truth is always simple or that mainstream news outlets are infallible. Slate(Dec 06, 2016) adj incapable of failure or error an infallible antidote an infallible memory the Catholic Church considers the Pope infallible no doctor is infallible Syn|Ant foolproof, unfailing not liable to failure inerrable, inerrant, unerringnot liable to error fallible likely to fail or make errors errantstraying from the right course or from accepted standards erring, error-pronecapable of making an error undependable, unreliableliable to be erroneous or misleading weaklikely to fail under stress or pressure |
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