Unfailing

adj

adj ·3 syllables ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    inexhaustible
  2. 2
    changeless, constant

    "There is an unfailing charm about his novels, an unwearing freshness."

  3. 3
    infallible
Adjective
  1. 1
    tireless wordnet
  2. 2
    always able to supply more wordnet
  3. 3
    not liable to failure wordnet

Example

More examples

"The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor. It does not even rest on the kindness of the rich to the poor. It rests on the perennial and unfailing kindness of the poor to the rich."

Etymology

From un- + failing.

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