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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Always able to supply more; inexhaustible.
- adjective Constant; unflagging.
- adjective Incapable of error; infallible.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not liable to fail; incapable of being exhausted: as, an unfailing spring; unfailing sources of supply.
- Not missing; always fulfilling a hope, promise, or want; not coming short; sure; certain.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not failing; not liable to fail; inexhaustible; certain; sure.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
inexhaustible - adjective
changeless - adjective
infallible
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not liable to failure
- adjective always able to supply more
- adjective unceasing
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Examples
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"Dear Stig, at this, maybe our last, meeting – in unfailing grateful memory."
How I Helped Alexandr Solzhenitsyn Smuggle His Nobel Lecture from the USSR 2006
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Martin was there, in a sense, for she could see from her attic the great blue flag as it fluttered in the breeze, and she called her unfailing -- and no longer ailing daughter to come to the window and look at it and wish it God-speed; after which she turned her old eyes again to their wonted resting-place, where the great sea rolled its crested breakers beyond the sands.
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Motioning me to sit down, the resourceful man punched the door, entitled the unfailing static bolt, and swore a candle to augment the one he had brought with him.
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But there is more to be said than to recall the unfailing zest of it, the extraordinary freshness of eye, the indomitable youthfulness and health of spirit -- all the qualities that we associate with Davis himself.
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But there is more to be said than to recall the unfailing zest of it, the extraordinary freshness of eye, the indomitable youthfulness and health of spirit -- all the qualities that we associate with Davis himself.
Appreciations of Richard Harding Davis Davis appreciations: Various 1917
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Sodano's defence of the pope's "unfailing" leadership and courage, as well as of the work of priests worldwide with children entrusted to their care, built on a vigorous Vatican campaign to defend Benedict's moral authority.
CTV News RSS Feed 2010
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World: Pope hailed as 'unfailing' leader at Easter Mass
CTV News RSS Feed 2010
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Sodano's defense of the pope's "unfailing" leadership and courage, as well as of the work of priests worldwide with children entrusted to their care, built on a vigorous Vatican campaign to defend Benedict's moral authority.
Edmonton Sun 2010
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Sodano's defense of the pope's "unfailing" leadership and courage, as well as of the work of priests worldwide with children entrusted to their care, built on a vigorous Vatican campaign to defend Benedict's moral authority.
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Sodano's defense of the pope's "unfailing" leadership and courage, as well as of the work of priests worldwide with children entrusted to their care, built on a vigorous Vatican campaign to defend Benedict's moral authority.
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Words with the same meaning
- abiding
- assiduous
- calculable
- certain
- changeless
- consistent
- constant
- continuing
- dependable
- devoted
- diligent
- dogged
- durable
- enduring
- faithful
- faithworthy
- fast
- firm
- fixed
- frozen
- immobile
- immutable
- inalterable
- indefatigable
- indomitable
- industrious
- inexhaustible
- infallible
- insistent
- intact
- invariable
- invincible
- inviolate
- lasting
- loyal
- marble-constant
- never-tiring
- obstinate
- patient
- patient as Job
- permanent
- perpetual
- perseverant
- persevering
- persistent
- persisting
- pertinacious
- plodding
- plugging
- predictable
- preoccupied
- quiescent
- rapt
- relentless
- reliable
- remaining
- resolute
- rigid
- secure
- sedulous
- single-minded
- sleepless
- slogging
- solid
- sound
- stable
- static
- stationary
- staunch
- staying
- steadfast
- steady
- stubborn
- substantial
- sure
- surefire
- sustained
- tenacious
- tireless
- torpid
- true
- true-blue
- trustworthy
- trusty
- unabating
- unaltered
- unchangeable
- unchanged
- unchanging
- unchecked
- unconquerable
- undaunted
- undestroyed
- undiscouraged
- undrooping
- unfading
- unfaltering
- unflagging
- unflinching
- unintermitting
- uninterrupted
- unnodding
- unrelaxing
- unrelenting
- unremitting
- unshifting
- unsleeping
- unswerving
- untiring
- unvaried
- unvarying
- unwavering
- unwearied
- unwearying
- unwinking
- utterly attentive
- weariless
- well-founded
- well-grounded
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