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Unerring

adj.capable, thoughtfulformal

What it means

Consistently accurate or showing remarkably sound judgment.

Reach for it when praising a repeated record of precision while recognizing the word's near-absolute force

The editor's unerring eye caught the misleading caption.

Choose between these

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  • playful

    dead-on

    when informal exactness suits

    not when Dead-on is casual and describes one result, not a pattern.

  • everyday

    sure

    when confident judgment is meant

    not when Sure can describe confidence rather than correctness.

  • professional

    accurate

    when correspondence to fact can be measured

    not when Accurate allows occasional mistakes and is usually safer.

  • professional

    reliable

    when consistent performance matters

    not when Reliable does not mean error-free.

  • formal

    infallible

    when impossibility of error is literally claimed

    not when Infallible is almost never justified for a person or system.

  • literary

    faultless

    when no defect can be found

    not when Faultless is absolute and concerns quality beyond judgment.

Said against

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  • erring
  • fallible
  • mistaken

It naturally appears in

3
  • unerring judgment

    Her supposedly unerring judgment still remained open to review.

  • unerring eye

    An unerring eye for proportion made the repair almost invisible.

  • seem unerring

    The forecast may seem unerring until excluded failures are restored.

Where this comes from

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