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# infallible

«infallible» in Mova's school dictionary: **Never wrong; never making a mistake** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (infallible; infallibly adv.; infallibility noun)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Never wrong; never making a mistake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infallible/#m1)

2) Always working or always succeeding: an infallible method. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infallible/#m2)

3) (church) Catholics believe the Pope is infallible when he solemnly teaches on faith and morals; this is called papal infallibility. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infallible/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday talk: «nobody is infallible», «Mum's infallible cure for hiccups». In science: no test or person is infallible, so we check results. In church history lessons: the Catholic teaching of papal infallibility.

### examples

- Nobody is infallible; everyone makes mistakes sometimes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infallible/#x1)
- Grandma has an infallible recipe for pancakes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infallible/#x2)
- The detective's memory was almost infallible. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infallible/#x3)
- Even computers are not infallible. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infallible/#x4)
- Catholics believe the Pope is infallible only in special solemn teachings, not in everything he says. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infallible/#x5)
- There is no infallible way to win at games of chance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infallible/#x6)
- Laughing is an infallible sign of the highest degree of mental development. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infallible/#x7)

### note

Formal word. Opposite: fallible (able to make mistakes). Trap: papal infallibility does not mean Catholics think the Pope never sins or never makes ordinary mistakes. Spelling: double l.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «infallible» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infallible/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.